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charityAMG

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Registered: 2020-10-04

Posts: 4

Can't launch the program

I use the q4os 2.7 with TDE, I installed .deb file with

dkpg -i

on terminal. But when I clicked the program icon, nothing appeared, no error message. What did i miss? Is it a library for program or something else?
Thanks for advance.

bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,300

Re: Can't launch the program

If you are installing from a local deb file there are a couple of things you need to do.

Make sure that it is Debian Stretch compatible (2.7 is Debian Stretch base)

Check to see if it is already in the repositories.

Rather than using dpkg it is better to install via apt - which will pull in any dependencies (dpkg just forces the program contents into the structure defined in the deb file)

You do this from the location/folder where you have the deb file

sudo apt install ./name_of_file.deb

NOTE the ./ in front of the name. That tells apt to use that file rather than going off to look for it in the repos.