Apps :: Help Required Installing .deb package

I hope someone can help, been through the forums and printed off the pdfs. But just don't feel comfortable that I've managed to piece together reliable information (given my inexperience).

I have downloaded BitDefende.xxxx.xxxx.deb from BitDefender and now would like to install it. Along the way I've managed to get some info on Apt-get etc.

But it appears that it would not apply in my case - as BitDefender does not feature in the Debian 'approved' list (or is it 'repository'?) - yet.

So given I have the the .deb file downloaded, how do I install it?

sudo dpkg -i BitDefende.*.deb

You probably should have gnu-utils installed first

Thank you for your help. It worked.

Sorry - I thought I'd done with this, a slight hiccup:

Having successfully loaded it and working, there appears to be a problem in running it from within 'emelfm'.

I right-clk on the program and then using Execute with Arguments I try '--update' , and it returns message as if the action is successfully completed.

However nothing is updated, it simple reports 'no updates' or similar. But repeating the process by running it in XTerminal eg 'bdc --update', it works perfectly, visibly downloading all the updates.

Similarly when I run it from 'emelfm' by running it in 'xterm with Arg', the Bash appears momentarily and then disappears. No updates are received.

Is there a problem with the script when running from 'emelfm'?

Does it require root power to run it? The Emelfm shell may be owned by dsl, which would prevent anything from running that needs root access. If this is the case, you are really better off using a terminal (especially since you already know it works)...running commands as root from a GUI file manager can cause big troubles. In fact, running any GUI application as root can be a bad idea.

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