I was wondering what the best way to go about updating a semi old version of R to the latest version, which I believe is 3.2.2-1. I havent needed it for a while but now will need it more with a few features that are only on the latest version.
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Most of the "Software" I install on my server needs to be the latest release (Java, Tomcat, MySQL-Cluster). So I never have the luck, that there are pre-built Debian packages (in the distribution) available. Therefore all the software is downloaded from the project-webpage and built from source.  Now my question is, what is the correct way to install them on my Debian system?   My main problem is, when installing them directly from the source, they are not included in the package management (with aptitude). Checkinstall seems to not really be suggested to be used and equiv also has drawbacks. Is the only correct way to handle this by building my own packages with dh_make and dpkg-buildpackage?  What are you doing if you always need the latest version?
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I just formatted my laptop and got rid of Windows 7. Yay ;-)  Either way, Wine is version 1.3.28 here, and I need it to update (there are some bugfixes) for my game so I need a more recent version. This is the version I got from the Ubuntu software manager. How do I get a more recent version or Wine version 1.4?  I've already added the repo into my repository, but still no updates.  Thanks in advance.
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I am looking at using  , but I am not sure how easy it is to update a distribution when a new version comes out.  Also, can I use drush to do it, or do I have to manually download and unpack the distribution?
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From the usability point of view, I do not understand why on each release upgrade you have to manually patch all the URLs of apt in order to make them point to the newer distribution.  Why is not possible for apt to auto-detect the current and use it, so when you upgrade there is no need to upgrade the urls anymore?
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I'm pretty new to running linux, but I know that 19.04 was released today and I wanted to upgrade from my current 18.10. However, when I follow the release notes here:  I get the message "The software on this computer is up to date". I made sure that my update settings are set to "any new version" and "normal" in the /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades file.   What am I doing wrong?  Thanks for the help!  Side note: I had to disable this PPA:  because it would cause errors in apt updating. Do I need to re-add it? If so how do I do so without it giving me an error?  Edit: I have followed the procedure recommended in the documentation which is identical to the suggested duplicate, but I am not given the option to upgrade. I have not yet tried the   do-release-upgrade -d    option as I don't want to upgrade to the developer version.
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TikZ is undergoing lots of development with new features being added, but the versions distributed with standard TeX releases are often a little old. How do I get the latest version? If I want to be sure that I get the latest stable version, how do I do that?    Note: I'm not asking this question for myself, but because a question like this seems to be useful for pointing to it when a new feature of TikZ is mentioned in an answer to some other question. Feel free to post answers for any operating system/TeX distribution combination.
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I just installed a new version of Ubuntu and I want to roll it back to the previous version.  How can I do that? Is that even possible?
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I normally use Software Updater to keep the system updated. However I occasionally will run apt-get upgrade from the terminal and I've notice there are times when Software Updater says there are no available updates but apt-get update shows some updates to packages.  I haven't been able to figure out why.
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Suppose I want a more recent version of software than is available for my current version of an operating system, what can I do?  Cases to consider:   There are semiofficial/official sources of additional packages available for that version of the OS. E.g. backports.org for Debian or PPAs for Ubuntu. There are no more recent versions of the package available for that version of the OS, but there are more recent versions available for more recent versions of the OS. This is the standard case for backporting. There are no packaged versions of more recent versions of the software available. Options available are to package the more recent version.     Per  this is intended as a place to put canonical answers for the following. Answers should probably be made community wiki.
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I am a bit confused about the release schedule of Ubuntu. AFAIK, it releases a new version every 6 months right? How about the LTS version?
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How can I install a new version of R in my own directory, e.g., /local/data/project/behi.
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I had several friends ask me to update their Ubuntu to a newer kernel without changing the version of Ubuntu. So for example, staying in 10.04 with the 3.3 Kernel version.  When having an older or present Ubuntu version, many users want to apply the newer stable/unstable kernel version to the Ubuntu version they are using thinking that it is similar to upgrading a program. So what I am looking for, are some simple answers to explain the dangers (that are pretty much bigger than the advantages) of forcing a newer kernel version in a Ubuntu release that was not meant for it.  What can I tell them or explain to them of why they should NOT update to a newer/older kernel when having an Ubuntu version that was not made for that kernel version.
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I know I've seen this documented somewhere before, but what's the option to keep update-manager from prompting for updates except for LTS-to-LTS releases?
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As of 8/2 I'm still unable to upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 using the do-release-upgrade command. Still "No new release found." I don't remember it ever taking this long before. And I'd rather not use -d , cause I want to stay on the LTS.  I know they said it'd be a few days, but it's been like a week.. Was there an unexpected delay or something?
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I am trying to install current stable version 0.12.1, but it only installs 0.9.9. Any chance to install latest version with apt-get install? It seems that 0.9.9 is very old :(
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Sometimes when I am running a development version of Ubuntu, the Software Updater will tell me that a partial upgrade is needed when I check for updates.  What is a partial upgrade, and why are they necessary? Sometimes users run into problems when doing them, so when should I run a partial upgrade, if ever?
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I'm trying to compile a document that only works with an up-to-date distribution, so I'd like to know: how do I update my distribution? Please provide screenshots where appropriate.  List of answers           To keep an eye on what’s going on at CTAN you may subscribe to the  or the RSS feed feed://www.mail-archive.com/ctan-ann@dante.de/maillist.xml