find and install the 'latest' package

[Md Ashickur Rahman Noor]

Easy solution is

update your repo by

sudo apt-get update

then use update manager or synaptic package manager to upgrade your
packages.
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On 27 December 2011 11:58, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 21:22 -0800, Rajeev Prasad wrote:
> > i can go to web and check the the packages for a ubuntu release, but
> > how can i search and install the latest version of  a package without
> > knowing what is the latest version: for example for mysql, php, perl,
> > apache, openssl etc...
> ----
> short answer, the latest version will automatically be installed.
>
> longer answer, depends upon which tools you use to install software and
> which version of Ubuntu you are using.
>
> Assuming that you are using 11.11 (oneric), and apt/aptitude...
>
> sudo apt-get update # updates package cache
> sudo apt-get install $SOMETHING
>
> will install the latest version.
>
> Likewise, you can always ensure you have the latest versions of
> everything by doing...
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> If you use GUI tools such as synaptic, I believe that they will perform
> the 'update' on launch so they will install the latest version.
>
> Then there's the possibility that a PPA exists that has newer versions
> but those should probably be avoided by new users. Generally mainstream
> packages such as the ones you mentioned are very close to current.
>
> Lastly, LTS versions (ie, Lucid/10.04) don't necessarily have the
> 'latest' versions but tend to remain on the 'stable' versions that were
> chosen at the outset and patched for security issues if any.
>
> Lastly, 'latest' version of packages is often a relative concept since
> many of the upstream projects have 'stable' and 'pre-release' versions.
> Most users of the base server packages such as the ones you mentioned
> would definitely prefer the stable versions (patched for security issues
> of course) and the concept of 'latest' is not always desired.
>
> Craig
>
>
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