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Re: debian and ubuntu



In <[🔎] 6b1504c40904260811h249ac7d4m14cc7d9b40c51fee@mail.gmail.com>, Nuno 
Magalhães wrote:
>Slightly OT-ish, but if i want to install an Ubuntu package on Debian.
>should i use dpkg -i or alien?

Not alien.

dpkg -i is a start, but it might fail.  If it does, use the .dsc to build 
new .deb.  If that doesn't fail, the resulting package will most likely 
install.

(Ultimately, there are no guarantees that Debian packages will work on 
Ubuntu or vice-versa, just like a random RPM might or might not work on a 
distribution other than the one it was built on.)
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