Nala can't resolve dependencies from file glob, refuses to install LibreOffice from disk about nala HOT 1 OPEN

0.11.1 is rather ancient, but this issue won't have been solved. And It's a lot of leg work to actually resolve it.

The issue comes from how python-apt works with local debs, when resolving dependencies they can't know about each other deb that is passed on the command line, it only considered dependencies that are in the Apt Cache. To solve this in Nala's current form would require me to resolve dependencies outside of how apt does it, and there is a lot of room for failure. Apt's dependency resolver is battle tested and developed for like 30 years or something. Mine would have many bugs that can probably break things.

The long term fix for this is when the rewrite for Nala in rust is completed. I have wrote the https://gitlab.com/volian/rust-apt library which has the ability to inject local debs into the apt cache for proper resolution.

At time of writing, nala-rs has implemented list, search, show, download, fetch and update commands. So development is well on its way, although slower than I would like.

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