I have a debian server and want to use the nice screen extension "screen-profiles". I think this comes from Ubuntu.

Is there a way to get it on debian and how?

Thank you

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Generally, Ubuntu and Debian packages are compatible. So just try installing the .deb from Ubuntu on Debian.

If it complains about dependencies, try to install these from a Debian repo, just to be safe.

You can download the package from http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/screen-profiles .

Then just install it as

dpkg -i screen-profiles.deb

Edit

You could also just use the Debian package :-)

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/screen-profiles

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Just a heads up. The screen-profiles package is now called 'byobu': https://launchpad.net/byobu

Here is the blog post from Dustin about the name change and some of the newly introduced features: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/05/byobu-20-released-project-formerly.html

Byobu really does make using screen a pleasure :-)

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