installing a package from Debian repositories on Ubuntu

[Tapas Mishra]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
Ok.I was not clear on this part only because when I tried installing
them it did not worked.



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.
>
> / johan
Yes thanks for helping it out here.