Only two commands are needed to install a deb packages and have its dependencies automatically taken care of (if they are available in your repositories).
The first command will unpack the package, and most probably give an error of missing dependencies.
The second command instructs apt-get to fix this problem. If these dependencies are available in the repositories, it will install them, and sucessfully finish the installation of downloaded_package.deb.
They both have to be run as root or using
sudo.
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dpkg -i downloaded_package.deb
apt-get -f install
If you are not too knowledgable yet with apt-get, dpkg, or Debian for that matter, get your new software from the oficial Debian repositories as much as you can (using Synaptic or apt-get). It has been reviewed, packaged and tested to integrate well with your Debian system.