[ale] md5sum weirdness on firefox

[Jim]

Steve Brown wrote:
>
> Jim wrote:
> >I don't want them to do that.  yum localinstall is too valuable.  I have
> >yet to see an apt-get command that will do the same.  I prefer apt for
> >most things, if it would just let me install a .deb file and figure out
> >the dependencies...
>
> Interesting, I had never thought of that until today, so I looked into 
> it a bit. Have you tried out gdebi?
> Apparently that's what I have been using to install local packages all 
> along :o
>
Never heard of gdebi.  I'll have to see what it's all about.

Thanks,
Jim.