Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian

On 8/31/07, Rolando Pereira <finalyugi@xxxxxxx> wrote:
应富鸣 wrote:
On 8/31/07, Britton Kerin <bkerin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just bought a computer that came with ubuntu and would like to switch
it to pure debian. Is there a standard way to do this that someone
could point me to?

(Though I will say that little hack where the shell tells you which
package a program is in looks pretty cute and helpful :)

Thanks,
Britton



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Ubuntu and Debian are not compatible. Once someone wanted to use the
source of Debian to install packages in Ubuntu, but finally his Ubuntu
crashed. Many people have done this and got the same result.


But aren't the deb files compatible between Debian and Ubuntu? For
example, I remember installing several .deb on Debian, and then install
them on Ubuntu, and they seemed to work fine on both system (at least,
as far as I could tell).

Also, some websites have in the description of the deb file "For use in
Debian and Ubuntu" or "For Debian-based systems".

My idea is that the problem isn't on the package itself, but on the
dependencies (because I think some packages have different names, so it
could create some conflicts).

Or does that only apply to more "high-level" files and wouldn't work
with the "low-level" packages (I don't really know if there is
high-level and low-level packages...)


The names of .deb between Ubuntu and debian are of course different.
But the name of the packages, as far as I know, are the same. After
all, upgrading Ubuntu to Debian using the source directly has the risk
of crash. Maybe there are some methods that I don't know to avoid it.

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