debain version

[Derek Broughton]

Scott Kitterman wrote:

> On Monday 29 January 2007 17:53, Wade Smart wrote:
>> 01292007 1651 GMT-6
>>
>> Im looking at installing a pano app called Hugin located at
>> http://hugin.sourceforge.net/download/, and it says packages available
>> for apt debain 1 or apt debain 2.
>>
>> Ubuntu is based on debain but which one do I choose: 1 or 2?
> 
> Neither.  Ubuntu is not guaranteed to be binary compatible with Debian (or
> any
> version).  If you need to do this, get the source package and build it
> yourself.

ime, that's hardly ever an issue.  Grab the package (_don't_ add the
repository to your sources.list) and "dpkg --install" it. 
Then "aptitude -f install".  If there are no errors, its fine, if there
are, then you're going to have to uninstall it and either find an ubuntu
package or compile from source.
-- 
derek