[ovs-dev] [PATCH] debian.rst: Clarify that "dpkg" needs manual help with dependencies.

[Ben Pfaff]

Reported-by: Mircea Ulinic <ping at mirceaulinic.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
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 AUTHORS.rst                            |  1 +
 Documentation/intro/install/debian.rst | 14 +++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst
index a8bf1ee0c6af..6c02711780d4 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.rst
+++ b/AUTHORS.rst
@@ -477,6 +477,7 @@ Mike Kruze                      mkruze at nicira.com
 Mike Qing                       mqing at vmware.com
 Min Chen                        ustcer.tonychan at gmail.com
 Mikael Doverhag                 mdoverhag at nicira.com
+Mircea Ulinic                   ping at mirceaulinic.net
 Mrinmoy Das                     mrdas at ixiacom.com
 Muhammad Shahbaz                mshahbaz at cs.princeton.edu
 Murali R                        muralirdev at gmail.com
diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/debian.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/debian.rst
index 6484331442fb..0bf94e4090d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/intro/install/debian.rst
+++ b/Documentation/intro/install/debian.rst
@@ -98,11 +98,15 @@ Installing .deb Packages
 ------------------------
 
 These instructions apply to installing from Debian packages that you built
-yourself, as described in the previous section, or from packages provided by
-Debian or a Debian derivative distribution such as Ubuntu.  In the former case,
-use a command such as ``dpkg -i`` to install the .deb files that you build, and
-in the latter case use a program such as ``apt-get`` or ``aptitude`` to
-download and install the provided packages.
+yourself, as described in the previous section.  In this case, use a command
+such as ``dpkg -i`` to install the .deb files that you build.  You will have to
+manually install any missing dependencies.
+
+You can also use these instruction to install from packages provided by Debian
+or a Debian derivative distribution such as Ubuntu.  In this case, use a
+program such as ``apt-get`` or ``aptitude`` to download and install the
+provided packages.  These programs will also automatically download and install
+any missing dependencies.
 
 .. important::
   You must be superuser to install Debian packages.
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