Upgrade Manager, Synaptic, upgrades already upgraded programs?

[sammermpc]

Hello --

I've installed some of my own upgrades (OpenOffice 3.0, Firefox 3.0.3), by downloading them straight from their respective websites.

Whenever I use update-manager, though, it always wants to reinstall them. Is there a way I can make update-manager see my current installations? Conversely, can I use synaptic to "uninstall" whatever versions that it sees, so that I can get update-manager just to ignore this?

Or is it something else? Many thanks.

I am using Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.1

[taurus]

Just search for those packages from synaptic and see if you can remove them from your machine. Then, the update won't prompt you to upgrade those packages anymore.

[sammermpc]

And that won't mess with the installations that I did outside of synaptic? I mean, if I uninstall openoffice in synaptic, it won't mess with the one that I downloaded on my own?

[taurus]

Synaptic doesn't even see or know about the version that you installed own your own by hand.