On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 04:58 +0000, squareyes wrote: > Hi all, > I have a 3 DVD set of Debian 4 "Etch", and was wondering if I can use > them to > install applications like Scribus, Inkscape etc. on Ubuntu 7.04 ? > > I have friends who have Ubuntu running on machines with no Internet access, > and thought if I could add the DVD's to their (mine too, have slow dial up) > apt.sources list and use them as repositories. Would save them bringing > their boxes here > and installing via my slow dialup. > > Are there any problems that may rear their ugly heads.
Using them as an actual Apt source is likely to be troublesome - you could end off running half Debian and half Ubuntu, which is no fun for anyone. If it's only a couple of applications, you could manually open the packages with File Roller and place the files from data.tar.gz manually into the folders they would belong in. You would still need to download the dependencies from the Ubuntu repos, but even though the programs are linked against the Debian versions of the libraries they should still work on Ubuntu. I'd only recommend this for a small handful of programs, otherwise it gets too cumbersome, and there's always a small possibility of breakage. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au