Re: [kde-linux] Add CDs to Kpackage sources, How-To ???

On Sunday 27 August 2006 17:19, The Other wrote:
Aug 27, 2006

Hello All,

I'm using Kpackage 3.4.2 level "b" and SuSE 10.0.

I had been using YaST to access the SuSE install disks to get
packages. Then I discovered Kpackage, and would like to use my
Debian Woody and Sarge install disks to access those packages.

How do I do it?

Using my /etc/apt/sources.list from Debian was not read properly by
Kpackage and resulted in errors.

Is it possible to tell Kpackage to read packages off CDs? If so, how?
(I access the internet through dial-up, and really want to use those
14 CDs of packages I have from Debian.)

Thanks All,
Stephen.
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Unfortunately you're about to cause your self a world of pain by mixing
packages from one distribution of Linux with another. Unfortunately, in Linux
if a package is from one distribution or another, it is highly advised to use
packages only for the distribution you are on. This is caused by version
mismatches of libraries, locations of tools, and the scripts used to start
the installation/configure it. SuSE is as far from Debian in many ways as an
apple is to an orange. While both are fruit and they both are sweet, they
aren't one and the same.

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