Backports are programs and Packages packaged for a previous version of an Ubuntu Operating System which exist in a newer version of Ubuntu
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How to edit a backported package before uploading it to a PPA?
I'm attempting to backport Clang 3.2 to Quantal from Raring. Thinking this would be a relatively painless process, I ran the following command:
backportpackage -s raring -d quantal -u ...
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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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Is there way to get close button in windows spread view in 12.04?
Is there way to get close window button in windows spread view for Ubuntu 12.04 like it made in 12.10?
Maybe exists some backport or config for that compiz plugin?
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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 install Kaffeine 0.8.7 in Ubuntu 12.10?
Ubuntu 12.10 ships with Kaffeine 1.2.2, and 0.8.7 had a feature that has been removed in recent releases.
Do you know how can I install Kaffeine 0.8.7 in Ubuntu 12.10?
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Backported TeX Live 2012 on Ubuntu 12.04 says restricted \write18 enabled
I installed the backported version of TeX Live but I must have improperly removed the existing version because I keep getting the error restricted \write18 enabled when I run latex. How can I fix it?
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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Following problem: Because Chromium is still completely outdated in Ubuntu I downloaded the source packages from the Debian project (Which are up-to-date) and build them on my Ubuntu system.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 ...
