Softwares available in debian
Can I install all softwares to debian which I was having in ubuntu?
Like firefox,chrome,vlc,and other free softwares |
yes, especially seeing as those are just about THE most common packages imaginable...
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Iceweasel=Firefox , that said if you want the actually Firefox you will need to download it from Mozilla. Same goes for Icedove=Thunderbird.
$ apt-cache policy iceweasel iceweasel: Installed: 10.0.2-1 Candidate: 10.0.2-1 Version table: 11.0~b5-1 0 1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main i386 Packages *** 10.0.2-1 0 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Debian repos have Chromium, for Chrome you will need to download it from Google. Other than that yes most packages in *buntu are also in the Debian repos. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2 $ apt-cache policy vlc vlc: Installed: 1:2.0.0-0.1 Candidate: 1:2.0.0-0.1 Version table: *** 1:2.0.0-0.1 0 500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ unstable/main i386 Packages 500 http://debian.dc-uoit.net/debian-multimedia/ unstable/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.0.0-6 0 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages $ apt-cache policy google-chrome-stable google-chrome-stable: Installed: 17.0.963.65-r124586 Candidate: 17.0.963.65-r124586 Version table: *** 17.0.963.65-r124586 0 500 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ apt-cache policy chromium chromium: Installed: (none) Candidate: 17.0.963.56~r121963-1 Version table: 17.0.963.56~r121963-1 0 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages $ apt-cache policy google-chrome-beta google-chrome-beta: Installed: (none) Candidate: 18.0.1025.45-r124098 Version table: 18.0.1025.45-r124098 0 500 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main i386 Packages $ apt-cache policy google-chrome-unstable google-chrome-unstable: Installed: (none) Candidate: 19.0.1055.1-r123982 Version table: 19.0.1055.1-r123982 0 500 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main i386 Packages |
Most of the packages available in the Ubuntu repos originate in the Debian repos and are modified and put in the Ubuntu repos by the Ubuntu devs.
A very few come from the upstream source like Firefox and Thundbird. Why bother having to create a .deb from scratch when you can get one direct from Debian and just modify the install script? You will find anything you need in the Debian repos. As some smart a$$ has in his sig; Debian - "If you can't apt-get something, it isn't useful or doesn't exist" This is true. |
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