Upgrading packages

[Art Alexion]

Oh, you mean as a matter of policy as opposed to technical reasons.  
That's why it is "universe". Universe is not officially supported.

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Art Alexion
Sent unsigned from an iPod. That's the reason for the top posting as  
well.

On Oct 29, 2008, at 6:08 AM, Neil Winchurst <barnaby at drofle.com> wrote:

> 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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