Upgrading individual packages to newer dist withut full dist-upgrade

[reg2117]

Forum Members,

I'm trying to open a range of ports on a 8.04 LTS server using ufw. It's exactly the same problem as this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=886693).

Unfortunately, port ranges aren't supported in the 8.04 LTS version (0.16.2). (UbuntuFirewall Wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFirewall#Command-line%20Interface)).

Is there a method for upgrading the ufw package to the 9.04 version without
1. breaking the system
2. a full upgrade
3. this being a complete science project

Any help would be appreciated.

[Sef]

System > Administration > Software Sources > Updates > tic Unsupported Updates

[reg2117]

Thanks for the reply.
I am running Kubuntu desktop. Unsupported updates was already checked in the adept manager and the 0.16.2.4 version is installed. There does not appear to be any mechanism for upgrading this package.
Any way method to force this package to the 9.04 version (0.27-0ubuntu2)?
Thanks in advance.