Re: [Sheflug] Virtualisation and using debian packages with ubuntu

[Sean Whitton <sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 14:51, Simon Brown<simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Tim Dobson (lists@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>> If you are not running servers, use virtualbox.
>> If you are running servers, don't use virtualbox.
>> :)
> Why is that?
>
>> google for them?
>>
>> http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=e17+ubuntu
>> seem to turn up a few worthwhile links imho.
> All of the links out there point at old packages. I was hoping a
> debian wizard would tell me that there's a automagic way of dowloading
> the source packages are rebuilding them. I seem to remember back some
> years that Alex H built his own X11 from source packages in a
> reasonably automated fashion.
>
> further digging in Debian land required.

You may wish to take a look at
<http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/20>. You could get the
source in Debian/using the Debian mirrors, and then complete the
re-packaging process in Ubuntu. That keeps it within your package
manager so it is cleaner to remove, should you need to in the future.

S

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