Ubuntu - sendmail problem

[Nick Phillips]

On 29/04/2008, at 5:18 AM, Julian Field wrote:
> Your best method for getting MailScanner working on Ubuntu is  
> probably to use the Debian package, which should just drop in and  
> run. Doing this will save you an awful lot of grief.
>
> I'm new to Ubuntu as well, so I don't know how to install the Debian  
> package, hopefully someone else here can enlighten both of us on  
> this subject?
>
> Someone?

If you have downloaded a .deb file to install other than from your  
standard repositories, the basic way to install it is "dpkg -i  
<file>". The downside is that you will have to install any  
dependencies (preferably using aptitude) yourself. dpkg will just  
refuse to install the other package properly until you have installed  
the dependencies. Note though, that the package you try to install  
won't be completely uninstalled either -- "dpkg --purge <packagename>"  
to do that.

You can also set up an archive on your filesystem and use file:// urls  
in your sources.list, but that is more complex.


HTH.


Cheers,


Nick