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Re: PATH question

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Since I began using Linux soon after its inception, 199?, I have just 
stumbled my way much by trial and error.

stumbles related to PATH issue:

installed bookworm from dvd.

moved distribution ,bashrc's to save.bashrc's

copied .bashrc's from buster on another hard disc. These have three 
virtues: root prompt colored red, l is alias of ls with list_directories 
first, and rm is an alias of rm -i. PATH specification (perhaps from 
previous incarnations of .bashrc}

proceeded with dpkg -i google-chrome-file.deb

At some point startled by message 'Insert distribution dvd" Did so and 
google chrome successfully installed.

Tom

On 11/12/23 09:38, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 09:35:33AM -0500, Thomas George wrote:
>> I don't like to clutter up my download file. Since I normally use dpkg -i
>> debfile.deb this would add a directory in the download file.
> When you install a .deb package it only installs to the
> fully-qualified paths inside the .deb file. It doesn't install
> anything to the current directory, so it doesn't matter where the
> .deb is located when you issue "dpkg -i" or "apt install ./file.deb"
>
> (I am not sure if it is even possible for a .deb file to contain a
> relative file path, but if it is, they typically don't.)
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>

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Re: PATH question Thomas George <debianlist@mailfence.com> - 2023-11-12 15:40 +0100
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