Ah, I Love How Helpful the #Linux Community is... (Linux Mint Forums • View topic - Can't install VLC on Debian Mint)

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Running Whine in #Linux: Where's #Debian?... - krikitmedia@gmail.com

aaahhhhh!

Is anyone else beyond done with this recurring scenario?...  Programs with available Ubuntu download options, but none for Debian? ...even though Ubuntu is Debian-based???

what I have done when this has happened in the past, is download all the "ubuntu flavors" of a .deb* file or try the PPA's one-by-one, since one of the most recent one's will probably work fine... but why should we do this?

Come on!  ...There is no Ubuntu without Debian!

...And I'm done.

related link: 

• https://github.com/simon04/gnome-shell-extension-weather (screenshot above)

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* .deb is pretty much the Debian equivalent of an .exe file in Windows, in case ya didn't know ;)  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_%28file_format%29)

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