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Quick update: Oracle has released a Critical Patch Update for Java 6 (JDK 6u41) and 7 (JDK 7u15). Also, 6u41 is the last public Java 6 release and Oracle no longer recommends using it in production, so if you’re using it, you should upgrade to Java 7.For more information, see the release notes:Oracle JDK7Oracle JDK6The [...] A few weeks ago, we saw how to find out to which PPA / repository a package belongs to in Ubuntu / Debian. But how about getting a list of packages available in a PPA / repository?There used to be an option in Ubuntu Software Center that would list all the packages available in each [...] The ppa-purge package available in the official Ubuntu repositories is not multi-arch aware, so purging PPAs like xorg-edgers or gnome3 doesn’t work correctly on 64bit systems.A few hours ago, thanks to Tim Lunn’s work, a branch that adds multiarch support has been merged into the main ppa-purge branch, fixing this bug. The fix should be [...] There are various reasons why you may need to find out to which PPA a package belongs to, for instance, in case a package in a PPA breaks something on your system, if you want to install a package which is already installed on your computer on some other machine but you don’t know the [...] Ubuntu 12.10 beta 1 was released almost two weeks ago and many Ubuntu users have already upgraded, so it’s time to make the packages from the WebUpd8 PPAs available for the latest Ubuntu 12.10.This is a quick post to let you know that today I’ve uploaded Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal builds for the following packages [...] A quick tip for Chromium users who are using Ubuntu 12.04: the Chromium PPAs (Stable, Beta, Dev and Daily) haven’t been updated since Chromium 18 but if you want to use the latest Chromium browser in Ubuntu, there are two new PPAs you can use, thanks to Alex Shkop.The two Chromium PPAs are for Ubuntu [...] Y PPA Manager, a tool to easily search for packages in Launchpad PPAs and perform various PPA actions: add, remove, purge, backup PPAs and more, has been updated to version 0.0.9.0 today.Y PPA Manager 0.0.9.0 brings an option to install a package from the PPA search results dialog (which adds the PPA too if it’s [...] |
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