kubuntu configuration

[David Bandel]

On 11/11/06, Bill Campbell <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes.  dpkg is the low-level handler that reads and unpacks the .deb,
reads and modifies the database files found in /var/lib/dpkg
(available, status, etc.) and reads/writes/runs the
/var/lib/dpkg/info/* files and scripts.

All other installers are just wrappers that run dpkg, the original
being dselect (which takes some getting used to, but once past the
learning curve is very fast and easy to use and just works unless
things are really hosed, then you have to learn dpkg).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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