Official Backports Launched!

[AgenT]

Retry. Maybe your connection to the server was interrupted.

[evilmrt]

Had the same problem. Ran the command in the terminal (didn't save it..how?). It works now! Thanks!

[vrln]

Great to see backports as an official Ubuntu project. Just one question though: when will you start supporting Breezy?

[matthew]

Great to see backports as an official Ubuntu project. Just one question though: when will you start supporting Breezy?

After the development of Breezy is complete and it is realeased and development has begun on the next release of Ubuntu called Dapper Drake.

[DancingSun]

Great to see backports as an official Ubuntu project. Just one question though: when will you start supporting Breezy?

The backports project ports packages that are in the current Ubuntu in development. Right now, that means the project port packages that are included in Breezy Development. So if you are concerned that these nice packages in the backports will not be available in the Breezy release, don't worry, these are already in Breezy.

[DrakeGuan]

The backports project ports packages that are in the current Ubuntu in development. Right now, that means the project port packages that are included in Breezy Development. So if you are concerned that these nice packages in the backports will not be available in the Breezy release, don't worry, these are already in Breezy.

Then, how about "ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net" now? it seems this machine was done for a while?!

[Vicsun]

w32codecs and sun-j2re1.5 packages seem to be missing from both the new official backports and the old mirrormax ones. What gives?

edit: the problem isn't isolated to me

[seiflotfy]

for some reason i still have them ionstalled

[idn]

w32codecs and sun-j2re1.5 packages seem to be missing from both the new official backports and the old mirrormax ones. What gives?

edit: the problem isn't isolated to me

where can I find theses prackages? I only really want to use the offial repos

[Rory]

I have two basic questions:

1) Before, I was told to add "bleeding" to my backports repo line. Now it doesn't work. What is/was bleeding and is it now dead?

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricted bleeding

2) What is "Staging" and should I add it?

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-backports-staging main universe multiverse restricted


Thanks for your help.

Rory