For future reference..
dpkg -i path
Just curious, good sir, why you might be using dpkg instead of some member of the illustrious apt family: apt-(get|cache), or even aptitude?
Personally, I've had excellent results with the above, and only resort to dpkg to manually resolve dependancy problems when dabbling in testing or unstable releases. I don't care much for using the aptitude GUI as it gives me nasty flashbacks to dselect, but in CLI form, it's treated me quite well - aptitude (update|upgrade|clean|remove|purge|etc) packages. The benefit I've noticed of aptitude CLI over apt is that the former logs its actions to the
