How To install Local .deb (Downloaded) file [Ubuntu] [Linux]

When you use apt to install a package, internally it uses dpkg. When you install a package using apt, it first creates a list of all the dependencies and downloads it from the repository.

Once the download is finished it calls dpkg to install all those files, satisfying all the dependencies.

So if you have a .deb file:

• You can install it using sudo dpkg -i /path/to/deb/file followed by sudo apt-get install -f
•  You can install it using sudo apt install ./name.deb (or /path/to/package/name.deb).
  With old apt-get versions you must first move your deb file to /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory. For both, after executing this command, it will automatically download its dependencies.
• Install gdebi and open your .deb file using it (Right-click -> Open with). It will install your .deb package with all its dependencies.

(Note: APT maintains the package index which is a database of available packages available in repo defined in /etc/apt/sources.list file and in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory. All these methods will fail to satisfy the software dependency if the dependencies required by the deb is not present in the package index.)




Source:    https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159094/how-to-install-a-deb-file-by-dpkg-i-or-by-apt