On Thu, 9 Aug 2018, Mike Miller wrote:

> I think I can put all the .deb files in a directory (say, 
> package-directory) and then run this command:
>
> sudo dpkg -iR --no-force-depends package-directory
>
> -i install
> -R recursive (will do everything in the directory
> --no-force-things where "things" is "depends" turns off dependency checking
>
> That seems like the right plan.  All the dependencies are supposedly 
> taken care of, so no checking is needed.
>
> I'll let you know what happens!


Yep.  It worked.  I had a MOK enrollment thingy to deal with, but my 
guesses were correct enough and after reboot I had WiFi.  Thank goodness 
that is over!  ;-)

Thanks everyone for the tips.  Also, thanks to the many people who ask 
questions and post answers on Linux internet forms.

Mike