debian "*.deb" vs. ubuntu "*.deb"

[Danilo Piazzalunga]

Ben Edwards wrote:
> Debian .debs are OK, its the apt-get source you should avoid.

?????

If you download a binary .deb package built for Debian, it should (in theory)
work fine on Ubuntu but, if there is any incompatibility, there's a chance
that your program will crash (altough it shouldn't).

If you download the source package and then rebuild it, the resulting .deb
will run perfectly.

Usually these actions give you a working package:

1. Add "deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main" to your
sources.list.
2. $ apt-get source FOO
3. $ sudo apt-get build-dep FOO
4. $ (cd FOO-VERSION && dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot)
5. $ sudo dpkg -i FOO_VERSION_ARCH.deb

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