Hello,

I'm not sure if I'm dreaming this... Can SGFXI install a deb package that is just sitting in my Downloads folder and then have it show up as installed in Synaptic?

I installed antiX 8.5 base today and have been playing around with it. Changed my Sources.list to Squeeze and did an apt-get update and dist-upgrade. I downloaded the deb package for skype and had trouble installing it, so I kind of forgot about it and installed Synaptic via apt-get. I then checked for skype in Synaptic, but it wasn't there. Well I later decided to install my Nvidia driver via SGFXI and I saw the new version of Skype being installed after I had to apt-get -f some dependencies for my Nvidia driver. I checked Synaptic and now see that skype is installed.

Am I missing something? I know h2's script is good but could it have done all that?

Thanks in advance for any input or insights.
Dave

Hmm. Could it be that I only got a partial install (missing dependencies) and sgfxi installed what was needed and therefore installed skype?

You probably ran 'dpkg -i' to install the .deb package. That doesn't resolve missing dependencies so when you ran 'apt-get -f install' it resolved those pending operations and completed skype's installation.
You can install gdebi so when you need to install a standalone .deb you run 'gdebi *.deb' and it solves the dependencies or just install with 'dpkg -i *.deb && apt-get -f install'.

smxi does have options to install apps such as skype, virtualbox etc.

Thanks secipolla and anti for clearing that up for me.
Dave