Alternate Ubuntu installation methods, Launchpad 1.2.5 and more...

Jun 2, 2008 06:36 GMT  ·  By

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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