Thanks for the pppconfig package but I cannot install it because of dependency problems.
jmak
Which dependecy problems? Help us help you. You can always paste the relevant information in your email (in this case, it would be the output of dpkg).
Also, depending on the amount of missing packages, you can easily download them from Ubuntu.
And a question to the other listeners in this thread: it would be amazingly convenient if apt-get could generate a list of packages to be downloaded from the net. Preferably in a format easily parseable by wget. Is it possible?
The game "dowload .deb of x, dpkg -i x, x needs y, dwonload .deb of y, dpkg -i y, y needs w and z..." is no fun.
Another question: from Ubuntu, can he "get into" Debian and use apt-get? In this way, Ubuntu would provide the internet connection. I don't know if chroot would do the trick.