2009/4/26 Nuno Magalhães <[email protected]>
> 2009/4/26 Johan Grönqvist <[email protected]>: > > I prefer debian whenever I want to use packages that (in ubuntu) belong > to > > the universe category. I find that in my personal experience, packages in > > debian main seem more reliable than ubuntu universe. > > > > I find that I rather often want to have some package installed that does > not > > belong to ubuntu's main repository, but do belong to debian's main > > repository. > > Slightly OT-ish, but if i want to install an Ubuntu package on Debian. > should i use dpkg -i or alien? > > rebuild the deb files using foo.dsc and so on from ubuntu

