Synaptic Question

[zoarre]

I've noticed that some packages have a Ubuntu icon that supposedly indicated whether a package is supported or not (according to the help facilities). I originally thought this would indicate updated that come from the warty and warty-security repositories but this doesn't appear to be the case (linux-386-2.6.8.1-14 from warty-security is missing the icon). What does this icon indicate? Should I avoid installing packages I'm unfamiliar with that don't have the icon or is it still fine as long as it comes from a supported repository?

[HiddenWolf]

You can basicly install anything on warty as long as you get it through synaptic. Even universe, multiverse packages. Unless you see that it wants to replace/remove something essential or packages like ubuntu-base or ubuntu-desktop.

You shouldn't experience any problems. in 99.9% of the cases, what can be installed, can be purged just as easily.