12 Nov
2005
12 Nov
'05
10:26 p.m.
* Mathew Carley <mathewc(a)hostenz.co.nz> [2005-11-12 21:45]:
Firstly, I was trying to install it from the .deb package distributed on skype.com <http://skype.com> (skype_1.2.0.18-1_i386).
Ubuntu is not intentionally binary-compatible with Debian, for very good reasons. Sometimes Debian packages will work on Ubuntu, but that is only coincidence. If a package doesn’t work because it was made for Debian, not Ubuntu, don’t even dream of installing other Debian packages to make it run. You’ll tear up your system, but you won’t achieve a working install. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>