Installing a package from external storage (help needed)

Linux@lemmy.ml – 17 points – 6 months ago

So, I have a device running stripped down Ubuntu and I wanna get tic80 on it, I have a copy on a flash drive but idk how to install it. The machine is pretty much CLI only

Hey man, we're living parallel lives. I literally just did this yesterday. The command you're looking for is gdebi. Try gdebi (name of the package's file, uncompressed to a .deb) if you downloaded the .Deb from the website. tic80 will now be a usable command. To uninstall the tic80 command / program you can use apt uninstall tic80. It worked with and without sudo.

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Did you try

  sudo dpkg -i path/to/tic80-v1.1-linux.deb

Will try, once I find the filepath

If the device has network access, then you can just wget it and install it.

Its not on apt, I tried that

So, as I understand you, you've got a copy of tic80-v1.1-linux.deb on a USB stick and want to install this.

After you've mounted the USB-drive, cd to the directory where the downloaded deb-package is located. Then run

sudo dpkg -i tic80-v1.1-linux.deb
sudo apt -f install

to install the package and missing dependencies.

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