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

[Jay Lozier]

On 11/05/2011 09:02 AM, Ron Frazier wrote:
> 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
>
Check to see if there is another ppa for the current version of LO and
Java for 10.04. I know 11.10 uses 3.4.3

Also, LO 3.3.4 is considered an active version by LO. The differences
with 3.4.3 are primarily better msox support in the 3.4.x line.

-- 
Jay Lozier jslozier at gmail.com