I want to use Google's Chrome web browser. I can download the .deb file from Google, but what application installs it?

In general, how to install downloaded .deb files in antiX-M8.5?

Also, a related question, how can I add new repositories to get packages not listed in the standard list of repositories, like chromium-browser?

to install a deb package, as root,

dpkg -i packagename.deb

You can add new repos by editing

/etc/apt/sources.list (again as root)

OK, I found the answer."dpkg -i" is how you install .deb files.

I got Google Chrome to work and also Google Talk Plugin so that I can make free phone calls from gmail!

At first dpkg wasn't working for me but that's because I still had the package manager open. After closing that, everything was fine.

Now, finally, I got this old Gateway Profile 3 that I found in the trash to run a modern browser.

I see now someone else has provided the same information. I also found that I could add new repos straight from the package manager but the one I found for Google Chrome didn't have a public key so that didn't work.

Thanks for the info. There's a couple of Debian files I'd like to install too (Opera and PortaBase).

Cheers,

CP .

Make sure you follow dpkg -i foo.deb with apt-get -f install if there are any dependency issues.

Thanks again.