On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:29:15 +1300 Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote: > > i think you are on ubuntu? (can't keep up with everyones systems sorry). > > If so the debian packages will probably work: > > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=gambas&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all > > No no no, and a hundred times no. OK I stand corrected, sorry about that. can you explain for us plebs what "main" and "universe" are, and how they differ from the debian package streams? Is it that they contain similar packages, but the ubuntu ones are separately compiled by and for ubuntu? I know debian maintains a source package for each package, which has metadata for instructing the system how to compile it and ''debianise" it. Would it be in order to utilise a debian source package on ubuntu in this way? > > Even if you know *exactly* what you are doing, do not reference a Debian > repository on an Ubuntu machine. The resultant errors will be subtle, > unpredictable, and quite possibly unstable. Both systems refer to > packages with an identical naming system, but there is no guarantee that > the packages themselves would be identical, or even compatible. [snip] > Ubuntu is a *stable* system, not least because of the *lack* of packages > that they support. If you don't like the package selection, then the > idea is that you now know what you're doing, and move on to Debian. > Especially when dealing with a beginning user, the answer should be "if > it's not in main or universe, you shouldn't have it". There won't be a > good reason for it not being in main, but there is often a good reason > for something not being in universe :-) > > Now, Ubuntu *is* a standard Linux, and has all the development tools > available. I'm just saying that you shouldn't use them, not that you can't. > "freedom" is a clearly a variable commodity :-) > -jim -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
