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I have a deb package which I build but when I test it with dpkg (before put it in our repo) it can't install the dependencies put in DEBIAN/control file.
Package: package-name
Version: 1.0-1
Section: bla
Priority: optional
Architecture: amd64
Depends: openjdk-8-jre
Maintainer: user@mail.com
Description: BLa bla
That's correct. dpkg itself is not a dependency resolver, apt provides that functionality. You will need to first install the required dependencies if you wish to install something with dpkg -i, or you will need to run apt-get -f install after, which should pull in the missing dependencies if they are available.
apt does not install arbitrary local deb files. It installs packages available from a repository. You need to dpkg -i $file and then run apt-get -f install to install the dependencies. Or you can just manually install the dependencies first, and dpkg -i $file will not give you any errors.
– dobey
Nov 7 '18 at 14:37
sudo apt install /path/to/your/.deb and if any required dependencies were in your enabled sources then the externel .deb & it's deps would have been installed. (with 16.04 on
– doug
Nov 7 '18 at 15:03
The easiest way is to install gdebi (package installer)
sudo apt-get install gdebi
or https://pkgs.org/download/gdebi
then you can open deb files using the gdebi GUI.........
