On 2006-02-23, AnonymousFC4 wrote:
> Hello:
> there are many Debian based distros, e.g: ubuntu, kubuntu, kanotix, etc...
>
> I am wondering if they can all use use the same packages (.deb), or if the
> packages are very distro specific?

You can, I believe, use .deb ackages from any distro. However, dependency
considerations still apply.

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Seth H Holmes

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:18:12 -0800, AnonymousFC4 wrote:

> Hello:
> there are many Debian based distros, e.g: ubuntu, kubuntu, kanotix, etc...
>
> I am wondering if they can all use use the same packages (.deb), or if the
> packages are very distro specific?
>
> Thanks.

About as well as different RPM based distros can use the same rpm
packages. i.e. - in general, yes, but there are caveats. Mostly, each
distribution will point to a slightly different set of repositories.