Latest Software on Ubuntu ?

[MirJafar Ali]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, MirJafar Ali <mirjafarali at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> >  I am using jaunty repository to download software, but there are many
> >    software which are quite old ( and some of them have bugs which have
> been
> >    fixed in later versions). Is there any way to get the latest software
> > from
> >    any repositories ?
> >    Thanks
> >    Mir
>
> The correct thing to do is to wait until 9.10 comes out in a few weeks
> and they will have done all this for you. If you don't want to do that
> read on.
>
> It can often be done but you take risks like getting a virus from a
> 3rd party repository. The best bet is to go to the makers of your
> chosen software and find out how to install it from them. Often this
> is quite easy but sometimes can be a pain.
>
> Very commonly you just download the source file, configure it, compile
> it and install it. Often they write scripts for you to do it
> automatically.
>
> I recently installed Blender 2.5 (alpha) into 8.04 and it was a pain.
> I asked for help here and got it. It is now running just fine. I am
> sure you could do the same.
>
> What is it that you want to upgrade?
>
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My urgent requirements are "Octave" and "pfstools". Installing pfstool from
outside(  I mean not using synaptic ) was quite painful because of
dependencies, but the current version of Octave and pfstools are surely
outdated.

Mir
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