[nmglug] help with a friend installing ubuntu 5.10

[Eric Krieger]

With Ubuntu it still is possible to add sources other than the those
supplied by the Ubuntu team but none the less risky when crossing
distros.  Have you found http://ubuntuforums.org? I've found it more
then helpful on several occasions. Oh, there is a handy install script
called Automatix...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=105343&highlight=Automatix

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66563&highlight=Automatix

... very handy for installing additional packages that are not included
in the official sources.

- Eric
 

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 21:36 -0700, Mark Galassi wrote:
> Amigos, I'm helping a friend with an install on a new Toshiba laptop.
> We were going to do Debian, but the latest unstable netinst did not
> grok the CD drive.
> 
> I tried to install Ubuntu 5.10 and it worked like a charm (small
> caveats -- it will need extra work for the builtin wireless and so
> forth...)
> 
> I'm a bit sad about this because I generally prefer to stick to
> vanilla debian since a long time ago I read that Ubuntu was diverging.
> 
> So we then tried to add the debian unstable line to
> /etc/apt/source.list and then did a dist-upgrade, and now things are a
> bit weird and X does not run.
> 
> This led me to wonder if my old knowledge that you could add those
> lines to sources.list are no longer valid.  Ubuntu talks about
> something called the "universe".  Should we just go with that and not
> try to use Debian apt archives?
> 
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