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xuhu on Jan 20, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small productio...

I think you can use apt install ./file.deb instead of dpkg -i file.deb, in order to check and install dependencies.

Conan_Kudo on Jan 21, 2021 [–]

That's relatively new. I believe that was introduced in 2016-ish? It definitely didn't work in older Ubuntu LTS releases...

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