installing a package from Debian repositories on Ubuntu

[Tom H]

2011/2/11 Johan Grönqvist <johan.gronqvist at gmail.com>:
> 2011-02-11 05:41, Tapas Mishra skrev:
>>
>> How do I install a package from a Debian repositories
>
> 1) Point a browser to <packages.debian.org> and search for dnsproxy in the
> archive "unstable".
>
> 2) Find the package you are looking for, and follow the link to the page
> <http://packages.debian.org/sid/dnsproxy>.
>
> 3) Find the link for downloading the package for your architecture, and
> choose a mirror.
>
> 4) Open the package file and install it. In Maverick it opens with the
> correct program by default, if it does not, you can probably either open it
> with gdebi, or type "dpkg -i package-file.deb" at the command line.
>
> You probably already know that mixing debian and ubuntu is not recommended
> in general, and you seem to have good reason to try it in this case.

Not only isn't recommended but in the case of dnsproxy it makes no
sense whatsoever because the Ubuntu and Debian repositories have
exactly the same versions.