Hello, I have just started using Qubes and it has been fun learning how to use but I have run into problems with downloading applications onto Qubes through downloaded files I know that there is repositories to pull from but I either didnt use the right one or it doesn’t have what im looking for. I have been working at this for days and Im 100% sure the only issue is my lack of understanding but I would like to fix that any help would be appreciated.
Im not sure how much or what information I should put here so sorry if its lacking. The first file I tried to install was a .deb file on the debian 13 xfce template, The command I used was " sudo dpkg -i <filename.deb> " and I got " Cannot access archive No such file or directory " I then tried specifying the directory the file was in " sudo dpkg -i <filename.deb> /path/to/file/ " and got the same error message. At first I didn’t think I had sudo permission on that qube so I tried booting it into the “sysmaint” user from the settings and found out you can only do that on a whonix qube after a while I was starting to think maybe xfce doesn’t have access to the file manager but everything I read said otherwise. Eventually I gave up on trying to install a .deb and tried a .zip, The command I used was " sudo apt Install <filename.zip> " and this gave me two separate error messages as follows: " Unable to locate package <filename.zip> " and " Couldn’t find any package by glob 'filename " Then I tried using " sudo apt-get install <filename.zip> " and the output read:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package <filename.zip>
E: Couldn’t find any package by glob <filename.zip>
E: Couldn’t find any package by regex <filename.zip>
I left a few attempts out because I don’t remember everything I tried but you get the gist of how it went. Im sure this was a hard read for anybody experienced but thank you for sitting through it if I left out anything important please let me know.
