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  • I liked that you evaluated the usefulness of the approach and provided a history of your own experience. btw, please take the case of Hadoop now by Apache. According to Debian's wiki, Hadoop is not available. In this case, would you then install from source? And how would you consider installing from source in relation to the advice by Stephen? Commented Apr 13, 2023 at 17:32
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    @Johan_A yes, you would download from hadoop.apache.org/releases.html and install that way. As for Stephen, as a general rule, if Stephen and I give you conflicting information about anything related to Linux, believe Stephen because he is orders of magnitude more knowledgeable than I am. That goes double for anything related to Debian since he is a Debian developer. In this case though, there is no contradiction: Stephen was talking about not mixing packages, the only thing he said about installing from source is that that is how you would bring a package over. Commented Apr 13, 2023 at 17:49
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    By the way, @Johan_A, this sort of discussion is really not what the site is about. We try to keep discussion to an absolute minimum (see unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/comment). However, we do have chat rooms and those are probably a better venue for this sort of thing. This site's main room is chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26/dev-chat and while it isn't very active these days, you can try asking there. Both Stephen and I can often be found there. Commented Apr 13, 2023 at 17:50
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    My advice was based on your mention that you’re new to Linux; it isn’t particularly difficult in many cases but it can get quite involved (especially if you need to rebuild lots of dependencies) and it’s possible to get into a bit of a mess. When I answered your earlier question I was under the impression that you already knew about software you wanted that was available on Ubuntu but not on Debian; I agree with terdon’s advice here, if you’ve already set up a distribution and don’t already have a specific reason to stop using it, you might as well stick with it. Commented Apr 13, 2023 at 17:59