Debian apt sources vs. Ubuntu apt sources
Markus Kolb
ubuntu-ml at tower-net.de
Mon Sep 27 18:48:30 UTC 2004
On 27.09.2004 15:44, Torsten Curdt wrote:
>> There should be no Debian repositories in sources.list because of
>> version mismatch.
>> A debian package could have a newer version number and so apt will
>> update your Ubuntu package with the one from Debian and break things
>> with other packages from Ubuntu.
>> So maybe it works, maybe you can break your system.
>> You have to know what you do.
>> On the other side if you have problems with such a mixed system you
>> have no chance to get bug-support by Ubuntu and Debian. Both sides
>> will tell you that you should not install a mixed system.
>>
>> What do you need from Debian which is not in Ubuntu?
>
>
> Well, for some things you *have* to do it currently AFAIK
>
> ...mplayer e.g.
That's not an Debian repository.
And you need not to add the marillat repository to sources.list.
Download the needed packages and install them with dpkg -i ...
cu
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