Looking For Info On Updating Firefox & Open Office

[John DeCarlo]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Nathan Bahn <nathan.bahn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The latest version of Firefox is 3.6.2 and all Ubuntu has is 3.5; same
> thing
> > with Open Office -- the latest version is 3.2 but Ubuntu only has 3.1.
> > Where can I find information on how to install (compile?) the latest
> > programs into the Linux OS? (seeing as the Ubuntu variants don't have the
> > ability to get updates)  And please don't tell me to download 10.04; I
> have
> > absolutely NO INTENTION of downloading that version until May or June at
> the
> > earliest!
>
> You may be misinformed about the ability to get updates -- the Ubuntu
> packages of Firefox AND OpenOffice get frequent updates that address
> security issues; just very few feature updates for any particular
> Ubuntu release.


Exactly what the OP said.  If you want 3.6.2, you can't get it from the
Ubuntu repositories.

You can get some stuff, like security patches, within a week or two of when
they come out for the actual package, because it takes awhile to process
them and make sure that the changes Debian or Ubuntu introduced don't affect
the patch.


>
>
> As several folks have pointed out, you can download and install any of
> the compiled .deb versions packaged for Ubuntu. You should realize,
> however, that when you bypass the Ubuntu packages you lose out on the
> Ubuntu security updates, and then will be dependent upon the packager
> or the application's own update mechanism, if any.
>
> Luckily with Firefox and OpenOffice, you will be informed of updates long
before they would get into Ubuntu repositories.  so you get the best of both
worlds.

-- 
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
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