Ubuntu has a backport repo this repo will have updated packages that the newr version of ubuntu uses but will work with the older version that the backport is for for example dapper-backport for dapper and edgy-backport for edgy
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe</b> <<a href="mailto:josephj@main.nc.us">josephj@main.nc.us</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi. I am now a happy user of kubuntu dapper. Almost everything I need<br>works (until I head off into wine land for my Windoze apps.) except my
<br>blinking modem.<br><br>Anyway, I have OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and Thunderbird installed via<br>adept and naturally, they're not the latest versions.<br><br>In the past (Mandrake 9.1), when I tried to install these myself it was
<br>easy to do as single user installs, but I never figured out how to<br>install them so all users could access them.<br><br>I want to keep up with the latest versions - especially for ff and tb to<br>keep them secure.<br>
<br>1) What's the (a) right way to do this for each of these packages?<br><br>Do I uninstall them from adept first?<br><br>Can I keep any configurations I have done or do I need to do them all<br>over from scratch?<br><br>
I haven't used tb to get any email yet, so I don't have any to lose.<br>It's all still on the Windoze side until I get things working.<br><br>TIA<br><br>Joe<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>nflug mailing list
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