<p>Perhaps you need to look at using another distribution, perhaps a rolling release one like Gentoo.</p>
<p>What you want won't ever happen in the "normal" release types. They instead backpot security fixes.</p>
<p>More later when I get to a computer.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 5, 2011 9:03 AM, "Ron Frazier" <<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com">atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi all,<br>
<br>
I've been going through my routine pc maintenance procedures, updating<br>
everything which connects to the internet for every login on every<br>
computer, checking security settings, doing backups and such. One of<br>
the things I'm trying to get away from by using Linux is the Windows<br>
pattern of having to update everything in the system manually, which is<br>
very time consuming. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, and, for the most part,<br>
the Apt / Synaptic package manager system handles the updates. I have<br>
two anomalies that are really bugging me.<br>
<br>
First is LibreOffice. I have the following PPA installed:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu</a><br>
<br>
I check on the <a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/" target="_blank">http://www.libreoffice.org/</a> website and the latest<br>
version is 3.4.3. However, the latest version in my package manager is<br>
3.3.2.<br>
<br>
Second is the Sun / Oracle JRE. I have the following PPA installed:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/sun-java-community-team/sun-java6/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://ppa.launchpad.net/sun-java-community-team/sun-java6/ubuntu</a><br>
<br>
At the moment, I don't really want to debate the merits of the Sun /<br>
Oracle JRE versus OpenJDK. I need the Sun / Oracle version so it will<br>
be fully compatible with a Java programming book I'm going to be going<br>
through. The latest recommended version of the Sun / Oracle JRE is<br>
6-29. The latest version in my package manager is 6-26. A little<br>
Googling around seems to indicate that they've completely removed the<br>
Sun / Oracle product from the repositories and PPA's.<br>
<br>
This is very frustrating. The accepted procedure seems to be a VERY<br>
long and tedious manual uninstall and reinstall process, much longer<br>
than in Windows. And, I still wouldn't get auto updates. So, the next<br>
time things are updated again, I'll have to do all of this again.<br>
<br>
Does anyone know how I can install LibreOffice 3.4.3 and the Sun /<br>
Oracle JRE 6-29 and possibly the JDK, through the package manager, and<br>
get full auto updates? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
<br>
--<br>
<br>
(PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to<br>
call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy<br>
mailing lists and such. I don't always see new messages very quickly.)<br>
<br>
Ron Frazier<br>
<br>
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