you should just be able to install the new version when the new version I don't know how dpkg works but you can add the backport repo to synaptic or one of those.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joe</b> <<a href="mailto:josephj@main.nc.us">josephj@main.nc.us</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Thanks. I found a version of OOo 2.0.4. Do I have to first uninstall<br>2.0.2 to do this right or can this be done as an upgrade?
<br><br>Joe<br><br>matt donovan wrote:<br>> Ubuntu has a backport repo this repo will have updated packages that<br>> the newr version of ubuntu uses but will work with the older version<br>> that the backport is for for example dapper-backport for dapper and
<br>> edgy-backport for edgy<br>><br>> On 12/17/06, *Joe* <<a href="mailto:josephj@main.nc.us">josephj@main.nc.us</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:josephj@main.nc.us">josephj@main.nc.us</a>>><br>> wrote:
<br>><br>> Hi. I am now a happy user of kubuntu dapper. Almost everything I<br>> need<br>> works (until I head off into wine land for my Windoze apps.)<br>> except my<br>> blinking modem.
<br>><br>> Anyway, I have OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and Thunderbird installed via<br>> adept and naturally, they're not the latest versions.<br>><br>> In the past (Mandrake 9.1), when I tried to install these myself
<br>> it was<br>> easy to do as single user installs, but I never figured out how to<br>> install them so all users could access them.<br>><br>> I want to keep up with the latest versions - especially for ff and
<br>> tb to<br>> keep them secure.<br>><br>> 1) What's the (a) right way to do this for each of these packages?<br>><br>> Do I uninstall them from adept first?<br>><br>> Can I keep any configurations I have done or do I need to do them all
<br>> over from scratch?<br>><br>> I haven't used tb to get any email yet, so I don't have any to lose.<br>> It's all still on the Windoze side until I get things working.<br>><br>> TIA
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