Can python-debian install a .deb package?

[James Westby]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:30:39 +0400, Sergei Poselenov <sposelenov at emcraft.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We are looking for portable solution for a installer of a
> Debian-package-based distribution.
> The installer should be able to work on different Linux (not only
> on Debian- and Fedora-based, and even on the FreeBSD) system to install
> a set of the .deb packages to an arbitrary directory.
> 
> We are considering the Python scripts for this installer. Can the
> python-debian binding help us to perform installation of the Debian
> packages?

I'm not sure there is anything in python-debian, but python-apt has
things that I believe can help with this.

http://apt.alioth.debian.org/python-apt-doc/library/apt.debfile.html

Thanks,

James