Re: using other distro's repos?

Derek Broughton wrote:
Colin Brace wrote:


On Jan 10, 2008 7:31 AM, anthony baldwin <anthony.baldwin01@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


Is it possible to enable repos from other .deb based distros?

I'm also wondering if on an rpm based distro, if one can add repos from
other distros. (ie, say you are using PCLOS, can you add fedora repos?)

These sound like recipes for an extended excursion through dependecy hell.


This is beginning to sound like /The Divine Linux Comedy/:

Part 1, Linux Inferno, in which the narrator mixes repositories;
Part 2, Linux Purgatorio, in which the narrator learns the wisdom of
choosing carefully;
Part 3, Linux Paradiso, in which the narrator has a beatiful Kubuntu system
(and a coffee).


If a program isn't in your distro repo(s), you download and compile
the source, non è vero?


Preferably from the Ubuntu source packages

I'm continually disappointed by the lack of stuff in the PCLOS repos
that we have in Ubuntu.
I wondered if I could grab such stuff from other rpm places, like
fedora, mandriva, etc.
Ubuntu has almost every thing I need.

I know, I could hunt down rpms on line and install by hand...but,
where's the fun in that?

Incidentally, I did request one pkg to be added to Ubuntu, just recently
(which, oddly PCLOS does have).
How would I go about "doing the packaging myself", as someone suggested?
(I have the package on my system, but the world would be groOvier if it
was in repo and, thus, maintained current
with apt). It's written in java, if that makes a difference.
I suppose have to make the jar into a deb or something?
(Okay, okay...I'll get googling....suggestion are appreciated all the
same...)

thanks
tony

/tony

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