package updates

[Udvarias Ur]

I've been notified a number of times about updates since I installed
Ubuntu, 24 October 2011. Both for the system and software I have on the
system.

My questions is: How long does it take before the 'Ubuntu Update
Manager' notifies me about the new versions of software?

I just learned that both Firefox 8.0 and Thunderbird 8.0 were released 8
November 2011. From my point of view the Internet browser and the E-mail
applications are, these days, the 2 most important, read widely used,
applications on any computer. This is how people keep in touch with each
other making Ubuntu and all the other Open Source software possible.

In the the Ubuntu Software Centre the entries read: "Canonical provides
critical updates for ... until April 2013.
"

What does 'critical updates' mean?

Canonical has disabled or removed the self updating mechanisms from them
so that we MUST rely on Ubuntu developers for updates to these applications.

How can I convert the tar.bz2 archives that downloaded to deb packages?

On the other hand, I booted into Windows and update both in just a few
minutes directly from the applications themselves.

P.S. I found that 'gscan2pdf' is the best scanner software available, at
least in the Ubuntu Software Centre. However, the Ubuntu Software Centre
only has version 0.9.32 which has version 2.0 of the 'Tesseract-OCR'
engine in it. 'gscan2pdf' 1.0.0 is now available I am in the process of
installing it, as it has a clear set of instructions and scripts. Based
on the dates of the files in the archives, it may include version 3.01
of the 'Tesseract-OCR' engine. If so there are a great many more
languages and scripts that version 3.01 recognizes.

-- 
Udvarias Ur

This letter was generated and sent from Thunderbird on Ubuntu Linux.

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