kubuntu configuration

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Nov 11, 2006, David Bandel wrote:
>On 11/11/06, Alma J Wetzker <almaw at ieee.org> wrote:
...
>> If I can get local *.deb files loaded, that should solve my 'R' problems.
>>
>> Any pointers or helpfulness gladly accepted.
>
>couple of ways to do this, but the easiest:
>
>cd /var/cache/apt/archives
>dpkg -i file_to_install.deb

Does this work with an arbitray .deb package?  I want to install
a package that replaces postfix, linking /usr/sbin/sendmail to
the OpenPKG postfix instance, and providing the proper things so
that the mailx package is happy.

Bill
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