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

[matt donovan]

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.

On 12/18/06, Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>
> 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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