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

[Michael Trausch]

Perhaps you need to look at using another distribution, perhaps a rolling
release one like Gentoo.

What you want won't ever happen in the "normal" release types.  They
instead backpot security fixes.

More later when I get to a computer.
On Nov 5, 2011 9:03 AM, "Ron Frazier" <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> 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
>
> --
>
> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
> call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
> mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new messages very quickly.)
>
> Ron Frazier
>
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