packages from http://snapshot.debian.org/ would not install (then did with dpkg)

From	Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	packages from http://snapshot.debian.org/ would not install (then did with dpkg)
Date	2016-12-04 02:00 +0100
Message-ID	<sKtjP-cl-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Using Jessie, as I was unable to discover how to install a pair of 
interdependent .debs from looking at the man pages for dpkg, gdebi, apt or 
aptitude, I tried to first fetch them with wget and then set up a local apt repo 
from them after finding
https://wiki.debian.org/HowToSetupADebianRepository
but it was no better help. Neither the string 'local file' nor the string 'local 
.deb' are to be found on that page. Trying various suggestions from web searches 
had me going in a circle of various errors. Somewhere along the way I saw 
something about finding out why various errors get generated trying, but I 
couldn't even find that again after finding a purpose for doing it. Among the 
errors: "Dependency is not satisfiable". The rest I don't remember. Eventually I 
stumbled onto the fact that 'dpkg install' does not equate to 'dpkg -i', and got 
the latter to install the two updates.

However, I'd still like to know:

1-how to capture the responsible why of a 'held back' or a 'Dependency is not 
satisfiable'

2-what part(s) of the lengthy HowToSetupADebianRepository page describe 
configuring use of already downloaded .deb files

3-whether one hold operation can be sufficient for getting either apt-get update 
or aptitude update to obey it, and if so, how/which
-- 
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words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)

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packages from http://snapshot.debian.org/ would not install (then did  with dpkg) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-12-04 02:00 +0100
  Re: packages from http://snapshot.debian.org/ would not install (then did with dpkg) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-12-05 15:00 +0100

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