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I am wondering if there is a way to install software onto Ubuntu Gnome Desktop via USB. Anotherwords, I have a program that I want to put on Ubuntu, and I have unzipped it on Windows Vista, and threw it on my USB Stick.
Is there a command like
sudo apt-usb add
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install TCP Viewer 2.82
Or something like that? I know there is one for apt-cdrom add, but how do you install software from USB?
Note that dpkg, unlike apt, does not handle dependencies automatically, so you may also have to manually install everything that that package depends on first.
Compiling from source also has requirements. At the least you need to have the -dev packages for each library the program depends on installed.
Apt also has no way of tracking programs that have been installed from source. But you can use the checkinstall application to get around that; it builds deb packages from source compiles.
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