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

[Joe]

Thanks.   I found a version of OOo 2.0.4.  Do I have to first uninstall 
2.0.2 to do this right or can this be done as an upgrade?

Joe

matt donovan wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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