package updates

[dave]

On 18/11/11 21:20, Udvarias Ur wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
Firefox 8 now in the repo.