What to expect with updates

[Mike Teehan]

On Friday 18 May 2007 12:45:16 pm Paul Lemmons wrote:
> I am a long time user of Fedora (since FC2) but when it came to choosing
> a distro for my laptop I chose to use Kubuntu. Feisty arrived before
> Fedora 7 and even the beta live CD worked perfectly. I have been using
> Feisty now since about a week after GA and am still impressed. Being new
> to the party, though, I have some questions dealing with updates.
>
> I am used to staying fairly up to date and current on the software I am
> using. I think I am running into the philosophical difference between
> Fedora and Kubuntu and would like to know what to expect. For example, I
> would like to upgrade to Thunderbird 2.0 and while I am at it a Kernel
> that is 2.6.21 or greater. To do this the "Kubuntu way" do I wait 6
> months for the next rev? I know I can do it outside of apt/adept  'cuz I
> am an old dog but I would like to learn some new tricks :)
>
> Any comments, directions, work-arounds or rants welcome.

I would check http://www.getdeb.net/ and see if you can download the package 
from there.  Make sure that you tell getdeb which flavor of Kubuntu you are 
using (dapper, edgy, feisty, 32bit, 64bit, etc).  Since the packages you 
install aren't part of the real Kubuntu repository, don't expect automatic 
updates or anything, but for most software it works great.  Download the .deb 
to your home directory, open up konqueror, and right click it.  There should 
be a submenu that allows you to install it right from the GUI.

Hmmm, don't see Thunderbird 2.0 in there though...  Well, its good for other 
software anyway.

--- eMpTy
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