Bjarne Oftedahl wrote:

> This distribution (woody) seems to have ancient versions of packages in
> it? Are there updates to bring it somewhere into the last 2 years or so?
> If so where do they live?
>

Debian has three main repositories for packages. They are stable/woody
(which has the ancient versions you're seeing), testing and unstable. If
you edit /etc/apt/sources.list, replacing the references to woody (or
stable) with testing, save it and do apt-get update, you'll have access to
newer packages. Apt-get upgrade will give you a big list of replacements.
If you want even newer you can go to unstable, which is a little more risky
but not that bad.

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