On 8/31/07, Rolando Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 应富鸣 wrote: > > On 8/31/07, Britton Kerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just bought a computer that came with ubuntu and would like to switch > >> it to pure debian. Is there a standard way to do this that someone > >> could point me to? > >> > >> (Though I will say that little hack where the shell tells you which > >> package a program is in looks pretty cute and helpful :) > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Britton > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > Ubuntu and Debian are not compatible. Once someone wanted to use the > > source of Debian to install packages in Ubuntu, but finally his Ubuntu > > crashed. Many people have done this and got the same result. > > > > But aren't the deb files compatible between Debian and Ubuntu? For > example, I remember installing several .deb on Debian, and then install > them on Ubuntu, and they seemed to work fine on both system (at least, > as far as I could tell). > > Also, some websites have in the description of the deb file "For use in > Debian and Ubuntu" or "For Debian-based systems". > > My idea is that the problem isn't on the package itself, but on the > dependencies (because I think some packages have different names, so it > could create some conflicts). > > Or does that only apply to more "high-level" files and wouldn't work > with the "low-level" packages (I don't really know if there is > high-level and low-level packages...) >
The names of .deb between Ubuntu and debian are of course different. But the name of the packages, as far as I know, are the same. After all, upgrading Ubuntu to Debian using the source directly has the risk of crash. Maybe there are some methods that I don't know to avoid it.
