[ale] Staying current with mainstream distribution

[Greg Freemyer]

For SUSE 9.1 you can get a lot of gnome pre-compiled stuff at

http://www.usr-local-bin.org/

He supports apt to do the upgrades/installs.

Unfortunately, that is a volunteer supported site and the maintainer is
going back to school soon.  When he does he is planning on taking down
the site.  (Lack of time to update and resources to host.  Currently
hosted by his employer.)

Greg
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Greg Freemyer


On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 15:17, James Taylor wrote:
> SuSE often does their own thing with some of the apps they include to
> provide better integration.  Thunderbird, Firefox and Mozilla for
> example.
> If you want to retain this functionality, you need to use their
> specific rpm builds.
> 
> A number of updates are available at ftp.suse.com.  Look in the
> projects and supplemental directories.  Updates are available for
> Mozilla and Firefox.  You can also specifiy the supplemetal directory as
> an additional installation source and update KDE to 3.2.2.  It will take
> awhile, though.  Took me more than an hour with a T1.
> 
> -jt
> 
> 
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> 
> >>> esoteric at 3times25.net 7/21/2004 3:02:24 PM >>>
> BruceG wrote:
> 
> >       Are there any tools in the SuSE world that will let me upgrade
> to the 
> > latest packages, or do I just wait for the most recent release and do
> an 
> > upgrade of all packages? Does Ximian red-carpet offer that kind of
> service, 
> > and is it at cost?
> 
> Not to my knowledge, I generally build from source anything I want to 
> upgrade.