using debian sources from ubuntu

[tom arnall]

On Monday 15 December 2008, Rob wrote:
> Who is OP?

me


>
> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 21:02 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 10:24 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > > _don't_ do it if it's going to change anything important
> > > (and "important" includes anything you don't understand)
> >
> > I can live with (that as long as OP does not ask me to fix
> > his screwed dependencies ;) )
> >
> > To the OP: in any case, always check first whether the
> > package is available in Ubuntu. The overwhelming majority are
> > there, if you have the right repos enabled (esp. universe)