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How can I install a .deb file in Ubuntu-Touch?

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While technically you can download a .deb and install it, it's probably not a good idea in many instances.

You need to make the phone read-write (it ships read-only by default) which is not a good idea for most non-developers because the archive used for the phone isn't the full archive, so you may not even find the deb you want. We don't test apt-get installed scenarios on the phone and if you use apt-get upgrade, you may install packages which haven't yet been fully tested as part of image based updates.

That said, you can make the phone read-write:-

adb shell
sudo mount -o remount,rw /

You can then install a deb using usual tools:-

sudo dpkg -i PackageName.deb

However, you can break the phone and may need to re-flash from scratch if it breaks.

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    great helpful with this note: "We don't test apt-get installed scenarios on the phone and if you use "apt-get upgrade", you may install packages which haven't yet been fully tested as part of image based updates." – evergreen Mar 21 '15 at 12:05
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    There is also a problem, that the system partition is to smal. Trying to install one package using apt results in out of memory error. So you also have to first reparttion the phone. – Alko Sep 26 '15 at 12:44