If a list of packages is given on the command line, then only those debs with names in this list of packages will be installed.
Note that unlike cvs-buildpackage, the only way to specify the source package name is with the -P option; you cannot simply have it as the last command-line parameter.
Since installing a package requires root privileges, debi calls debpkg rather than dpkg directly. Thus debi will only be useful if it is either being run as root or debpkg can be run as root. See debpkg(1) for more details.
-adebian-architecture, -tGNU-system-type See dpkg-architecture(1) for a description of these options. They affect the search for the .changes file. They are provided to mimic the behaviour of dpkg-buildpackage when determining the name of the .changes file.
-Mmodule The name of the CVS module.
-Ppackage The name of the package.
-Vversion The version number of the package.
-Ttag The CVS tag to use for exporting sources.
-Rroot directory Root of the original sources archive.
-Wwork directory The full path name for the cvs-buildpackage working directory.
-xprefix This option provides the CVS default module prefix.
--help, --version Show help message and version information respectively.