Upgrading packages

Neil Winchurst barnaby at drofle.com
Wed Oct 29 10:08:57 UTC 2008


Derek Broughton wrote:
> Neil Winchurst wrote:
> 
>> I notice that some repositories are not included in the automatic
>> updating of packages, eg Universe.
>>
>> If I am using a package from such a repository and I notice that there
>> is a new version available, what is the best way to upgrade please?
> 
> Turn on universe in your favorite package manager...
> 
> If it's not included in automatic updating, it's only because it's either
> not present or not enabled in sources.list

Universe is enabled in sources.list. Here is the relevant section from 
the file

> ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
> ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
> ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
> ## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
> ## team.
> deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
> deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
> deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
> deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe

As you can see it says that I will not receive updates. Is there some 
way around this please?

Neil




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