[nflug] (Re)Installing Firefox, Thunderbird, and OOo under Kubuntu

[matt donovan]

Ubuntu has a backport repo this repo will have updated packages that the
newr version of ubuntu uses but will work with the older version that the
backport is for for example dapper-backport for dapper and edgy-backport for
edgy

On 12/17/06, Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>
> Hi.  I am now a happy user of kubuntu dapper.  Almost everything I need
> works (until I head off into wine land for my Windoze apps.) except my
> blinking modem.
>
> Anyway, I have OpenOffice.org, Firefox, and Thunderbird installed via
> adept and naturally, they're not the latest versions.
>
> In the past (Mandrake 9.1), when I tried to install these myself it was
> easy to do as single user installs, but I never figured out how to
> install them so all users could access them.
>
> I want to keep up with the latest versions - especially for ff and tb to
> keep them secure.
>
> 1) What's the (a) right way to do this for each of these packages?
>
> Do I uninstall them from adept first?
>
> Can I keep any configurations I have done or do I need to do them all
> over from scratch?
>
> I haven't used tb to get any email yet, so I don't have any to lose.
> It's all still on the Windoze side until I get things working.
>
> TIA
>
> Joe
>
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