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Re: Laptop Wireless issues

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On Wed 13 Sep 2017 at 15:12:41 (-0400), Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> On 9/13/17, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > If you already have installed Debian on your laptop, simply get the
> > firmware-realtek package[3] from non-free (either using a wired
> > connection, or via another computer and sneakernet).  You can install it
> > with dpkg:
> >
> > # dpkg -i firmware-realtek_20161130-3_all.deb
> 
> > 3. https://packages.debian.org/stretch/firmware-realtek
> 
> 
> Something that's not always clear (for newbies) is that you have to
> issue that "dpkg -i" command from within the directory containing the
> target .deb file after it's downloaded. That directory can be almost
> anywhere (if not actually anywhere), but the command has to be issued
> from wherever that .deb landed in the file hierarchy.

It's not at all clear to me either. What has the current working
directory to do with the behaviour of dpkg, and where have you seen
documentation for this statement?

Cheers,
David.

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Laptop Wireless issues Cody Jackson <codyjacks@gmail.com> - 2017-09-13 20:20 +0200
  Re: Laptop Wireless issues Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-09-13 20:50 +0200
    Re: Laptop Wireless issues Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-09-13 21:20 +0200
      Re: Laptop Wireless issues David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-09-14 17:50 +0200
        Re: Laptop Wireless issues Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-09-14 18:20 +0200
  Re: Laptop Wireless issues Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2017-09-13 20:50 +0200
    Re: Laptop Wireless issues Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-09-13 21:00 +0200
    Re: Laptop Wireless issues Cody Jackson <codyjacks@gmail.com> - 2017-09-14 23:50 +0200

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