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Installing A Package From A Package File
If a package file has been downloaded from a source other than a repository, it can be in- stalled directly (though without dependency resolution) using a low-level tool.
Table 14-5: Low-Level Package Installation Commands
Style Command(s)
Style Command(s)
Debian dpkg --install package_file
Red Hat rpm -i package_file
Example: If the emacs-22.1-7.fc7-i386.rpm package file had been downloaded from a non-repository site, it would be installed this way:
rpm -i emacs-22.1-7.fc7-i386.rpm
rpm -i emacs-22.1-7.fc7-i386.rpm
Note: Since this technique uses the low-level rpm program to perform the installa- tion, no dependency resolution is performed. If rpm discovers a missing depen- dency, rpm will exit with an error.