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Re: Cluster repository for third-party software not in Ubuntu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Oct 23 17:27:42 2009
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
To: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>
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On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:39 -0400, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> Er, I forgot to mention -- while it's true that Canonical packages
> acroread in the partner repository <http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu>,
> I'm not sure how much I trust the partner repo to be timely about security
> updates.
>
> Also, Adobe's website seems to be fairly behind, in offering me 9.1.2. The
> partner repository offers 9.1.3 (as of August 4), and alexp's current
> source <ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/> offers 9.1.3 (as of
> July 31) and 9.2 (as of October 13).
>
In my experience, the most timely acroread updates by a significant
margin are the ones posted at ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/
A.
