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Installing the 3.5 kernel backport for 12.04

I would like to install the 3.5 kernel backport to 12.04 as per the answer to this question.. The solution is to install the package linux-generic-lts-quantal. However, in the release docs and the ...
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How can I downgrade a system that accidentally had backports installed?

I installed a fresh Ubuntu system. Somehow - possibly through my own error - the backports repository got enabled. Then I did several upgrades. I noticed that this happened when networking suddenly ...
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How to build these *:i386 packages on 64 bit machines

Following problem: Because Chromium is still completely outdated in Ubuntu I downloaded the source packages from the Debian project (Which are up-to-date) and build them on my Ubuntu system. I also ...
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Is it good practice to backport source packages from newer Ubuntu releases?

My plan is like this: Say I'm running 12.04 LTS, life is good, but its packages guadually become old. Then 12.10 is out, I add a deb-src line in my sources.list, and backport (download source, build, ...
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install tomcat on ubuntu 11.04 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I install Apache Tomcat 7? I tried installing tomcat on 11.04 using apt-get install tomcat7 but I get an error: Unable to locate package tomcat7 I guess ...
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How are backports implemented in Ubuntu?

In Do '..-backports' repositories automatically take precedence over the standard repos? in sources.list, the answer says that backports are never automatically used to update a standard ...
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Old version of gcc for new Ubuntu

Is there a repository containing packages for old versions of gcc, for the latest Ubuntu. I want to install gcc3 alongside gcc 4, for programs that need gcc3 specifically.