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

[David Tomaschik]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> Unless you have some serious issues that you MUST. WORK. AROUND. NOW.,
> you really don't need to be stepping outside of your distribution.  The
> only reason that I ever step outside of mine is when I am actually
> actively developing software that depends on a version of something that
> I cannot get from my package manager.  That's it.
>

Or, I would suspect, to install software not included in your distribution.  :)

Or do you have a distro that includes everything you need?



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