Installing Deb Packages in Ubuntu 23.10 is Harder Than It Should Be

When you double click on a deb package in Ubuntu 23.10 an error will say “there is no app installed for Debian package files”. In this post I show you how to work around it. Most of us are accustomed to double-clicking on local deb files to install them (even Chrome OS lets you do this from its native file manager if the Linux development environment is turned on). But in Ubuntu 23.10 it doesn’t work. The spangly new App Center in Ubuntu 23.10 isn’t (currently) able to open, handle, or install deb packages downloaded from the web (despite said
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