Upgrading and extending

[Danilo Piazzalunga]

Brian Astill wrote:
> Thanks HEAPS for this.  I used the URL for warty to extend the list of
>  apps and wonder of wonders!  ALL the stuff I solely missed from
>  Knoppix and FreeBSD magically appeared!
> OK, so now I can get nedit, mc, gentoo, xmms, and even kde BUT I don't
> want to download kde from the ubuntu repository because (a) it's BIG and
> (b) I can download the Debian version locally without bandwidth charge.

> What URL would I need?  (ftp://ftp.filearena.net/pub/debian certainly,
> but there is no equivalent for universe multiverse - or is there?

Usually Debian uses the "main" section, but I bet you know can just copy the
correct line from a system which already uses that repository. Look
in /etc/apt/sources.list

> What I would like is to keep the ubuntu repository for main and
> restricted and the local debian one for the rest - is that possible,
> using synaptic or aptitude?

Considering that Hoary's KDE is being actively customized for [1]Kubuntu (an
Ubuntu derivative which uses KDE instead of Gnome), you'd better to download
the Ubuntu version.

Mixing repositories could be quite harmful, especially until you have
familiarized with apt and are able to handle (and repair) breakage. Just look
at *this* thread (which subject was «debian "*.deb" vs. ubuntu "*.deb"»), it
was discussing about this topic.

[1] http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/Kubuntu

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