This week brought all you Ubuntu fans out there a new tutorial - a tutorial that presented us with a few Alternative Installation Methods for Ubuntu 8.04: from a USB stick, from a network server and from a local or external hard disk! The Live USB method is the "star" of this guide, as it allows a portable installation of Hardy Heron. Read more here!

In other news, Launchpad was updated to version 1.2.5 and includes the following changes:

� commenting and voting on code branch mergers
� new Launchpad-wide search
� and translations search!

Now, let's move on to the security updates and fixes for all the Ubuntu releases. Let's start now with the updates for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:

� Xorg Server 1.0.2-0 ubuntu10.12

And the updates for Ubuntu 8.04:

� gdb 6.8-1ubuntu2 � Envyng Core 1.1.1ubuntu17 � Gedit 2.22.3-0ubuntu1 � Eye of Gnome 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 � Gvfs 0.2.4-0ubuntu1 � Gnome Desktop 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 � Gnome Keyring 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 � Evolution 2.22.1.1-0ubuntu3 � Seahorse 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 � Gtkhtml-3.14 3.18.2-0ubuntu1 � Vino 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 � OpenLDAP-2.3 2.4.7-6ubuntu4.2 � Gecko Mediaplayer 0.6.0-0ubuntu1.1 � Gnome Panel 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 � Evolution Exchange 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 � Xserver Xorg Video Geode 2.9.0-1ubuntu2 � OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 � Bacula 2.2.8-5ubuntu7.1 � Ubuntu VM Builder 0.4-0ubuntu0.2 � Gnome Menus 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 � Pycaml 0.82-7ubuntu0.1 � File Roller 2.22.3-0ubuntu1 � Deskbar Applet 2.22.2.1-0ubuntu1 � Compiz 0.7.4-0ubuntu7 � Plucker 1.8-24build0.1 � Oxine 0.6.4-4ubuntu0.1 � Gnome Games 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 � eel2 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 � Nautilus 2.22.3-0ubuntu1 � Gnome Applets 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 � Evince 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 � libgnomeui 2.22.1.0-0ubuntu2 � Linux Restricted Modules 2.6.24.13-17.38 � Apache2 2.2.8-1ubuntu0.2 � Audacious Plugins 1.5.0-1ubuntu1.8.04.2 � Yelp 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.8.04.1

� Devhelp 0.19-1ubuntu1.8.04.2 � Epiphany Browser 2.22.1.1-0ubuntu2~8.04.1 � Xulrunner 1.9 � Firefox 3.0 RC1 � NSS 3.12.0.2+1.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 � Nspr 4.7.1+1.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 � Desktop File Utils 0.15-1ubuntu4 � Gcalctool 5.22.2-0ubuntu1 � Gthumb 2.10.8-0ubuntu1 � Apache2 Mpm Itk 2.2.6-01-1build2.1 � Xserver Xorg Video Geode 2.9.0-1ubuntu2.1 � Initramfs Tools 0.85eubuntu39 � Lupin 0.19 � Migration Assistant 0.6.3 � Evolution 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 � Evolution Data Server 2.22.2-0ubuntu1 � Gnome Desktop 2.22.2-0ubuntu2 � Gnome Games 2.22.2.1-0ubuntu1 � Rhythmbox 0.11.5-0ubuntu7 � Xserver Xorg Video Intel 2.2.1-1ubuntu13.2 � Ltsp 5.0.40~bzr20080212-0ubuntu7 � Net Retriever 1.18ubuntu5 � Parted 1.7.1-5.1ubuntu9.1 � Xserver Xorg Video Intel 2.2.1-1ubuntu13.3 � SDL Mixer 1.2 1.2.8-1ubuntu0.1 � Tomboy 0.10.2-0ubuntu1 � ntfs-3g 1.2216-1ubuntu2 � dpkg 1.14.16.6ubuntu4 � Epiphany Browser 2.22.2-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 � Epiphany Extensions 2.22.2-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 � Casper 1.132ubuntu0.1 � Nautilus 2.22.3-0ubuntu2 � bzr 1.3.1-1ubuntu0.1 � PolicyKit Gnome 0.7-2ubuntu1.1 � OpenOffice.org-l10n 2.4.1

As you can see, this week came with a couple of important software updates, such as the ones for Firefox, OpenOffice.org Suite, Epiphany and a lot of GNOME packages. Once again, make sure you update your Ubuntu machines right now! See you again next week for another Ubuntu Weekly Report.

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