6 Nov
2007
6 Nov
'07
8:49 p.m.
On 11/6/07, Seth Gordon
I strongly suspect that if you got hold of 6.8.1 packages that were built for Debian, they would also install on Ubuntu, but I haven't tried doing that yet.
IME, this is very tricky to do right, even if the dependencies are the same (e.g. libc). My advice is: if you want packages, get them for your distro. If you haven't, compile from source or use generic binaries on $HOME. I've used Ubuntu for some time, until I got tired to wait 6 months for new packages and switched to Debian Unstable. I'd say I'm happy now, but I guess this unstable life isn't for a Linux newbie =). -- Felipe.