I am trying to open a file I downloaded from Synaptic. How do you do that?

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actually the packages you are downloading through the synaptic package manager will be at /var/cache/apt/archives location in your PC.Those packages will be in .DEB format.

so if you like to open the .DEB file , you can do it with

ar vx your_package.deb.

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Once the downloads are finished, go in Synaptic Package Manager again and select the same package(s) name(s) that you initially selected. Go to “Add downloaded packages” from the File menu, notice that the window that pops up is titled "Select directory" not "Select file(s)", you do not select individual package files but the directory which contains them. Therefore you should browse to the directory which contains 'Downloads', click once on 'Downloads' to select it, then click Open. Synaptic will then scan the selected directory for packages and offer to install them.

It is really quite simple to use: sudo dpkg -i *.deb

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