Hi Thanks for the advice but I already did that and guess will pay for it by suffering a bit and will wait for the next Ubuntu release to get on track
am will follow up on the wiki ram Pankaj kaushal wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>Hi >>I have just changed my laptop to Ubuntu - about a month back. One of the >>features I liked was that it has a common repository with Debian - so >>when there was a post saying that debian 3.1_roa dvd;s available I >>managed to track and get one and then used it to update my system. I am >> >> > >Small Answer: Dont do that. > >Long Answer: > >I am a debian nazi. I have fought all distro wars on this mailing list >and others siding debian. As long as I have used debian on a desktop I >have always used *unstable* and have gotten like 20-40 day uptime before >something majorly crashed. > > > >>not sure what I allowed to be updated but the results are strange >>1. I get a debian login screen >>2. Open office is debian >>3. Multi language login >>etc etc >>and some others seemingly cosmetic and not so cosmetic >> >> > >As I said in the short answer, dont do that. Dont mix the package tree's >of ubuntu and debian. If you install packages from a debian source, how >do you expect them to carry a ubuntu logo? If you do such things, sane >people such as me will not support you or help you. > >If you want the latest *stuff*. There is something called universe and >multiverse in ubuntu which basically is a copy of latest debian unstable >that *debian* people are working on to make stable. > >Hoary is the latest release ... if you have universe and multiverse, you >should have access to all the packages there are. > >Here is what you are looking for, > >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AddingRepositoriesHowto > >Cheers! >P. > > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
