[ale] AARG! Manual software updates, Sun Java, LibreOffice, help

[Ron Frazier]

Hi all,

I've been going through my routine pc maintenance procedures, updating 
everything which connects to the internet for every login on every 
computer, checking security settings, doing backups and such.  One of 
the things I'm trying to get away from by using Linux is the Windows 
pattern of having to update everything in the system manually, which is 
very time consuming.  I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, and, for the most part, 
the Apt / Synaptic package manager system handles the updates.  I have 
two anomalies that are really bugging me.

First is LibreOffice.  I have the following PPA installed:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu

I check on the http://www.libreoffice.org/ website and the latest 
version is 3.4.3.  However, the latest version in my package manager is 
3.3.2.

Second is the Sun / Oracle JRE.  I have the following PPA installed:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/sun-java-community-team/sun-java6/ubuntu

At the moment, I don't really want to debate the merits of the Sun / 
Oracle JRE versus OpenJDK.  I need the Sun / Oracle version so it will 
be fully compatible with a Java programming book I'm going to be going 
through.  The latest recommended version of the Sun / Oracle JRE is 
6-29.  The latest version in my package manager is 6-26.  A little 
Googling around seems to indicate that they've completely removed the 
Sun / Oracle product from the repositories and PPA's.

This is very frustrating.  The accepted procedure seems to be a VERY 
long and tedious manual uninstall and reinstall process, much longer 
than in Windows.  And, I still wouldn't get auto updates.  So, the next 
time things are updated again, I'll have to do all of this again.

Does anyone know how I can install LibreOffice 3.4.3 and the Sun / 
Oracle JRE 6-29 and possibly the JDK, through the package manager, and 
get full auto updates?  Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,

Ron

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