On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > In <[email protected]>, Tapas > Mishra wrote: >>On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. >><[email protected]> wrote: >>> In <[email protected]>, Tapas >>> Mishra wrote: >>>>How can I install a debian unstable package on a Ubuntu server. >>>> >>> Don't. Mixing the repositories isn't supported by either development >>> team. >>> >>> If you must, then you can download a .deb from packages.d.o. >> >>Very correct that is what my concern is also. >>Then in that situation what do you think is the correct way to go? > > Installing the Debian sid package is the easiest way to go. > ... > > For a slightly more correct way, you could take the Debian source package, > tweak the version in debian/changelog, and rebuild it in a lucid environment. > ...
In this particular case, the Ubuntu bug report that the OP was looking at was almost a year old and the Ubuntu version is now the same as the Sid one - it's in fact the exact same package because it's from the unmaintained-by-Ubuntu section of the Ubuntu repositories. The OP seemed to have a problem installing it from the Ubuntu repositories in his source.list and I suggested on ubuntu-users that he try a different repository... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTin0ePmEQWirSR1UJv34YgQR¿[email protected]
