Ubuntu – The noip2 (no-ip.com) package was deleted from the repository, now what

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The No-IP websites still provides Ubuntu users with an installation guide that uses Aptitude, but the package noip2 has been deleted from the repository.

Is there a way to find out why a given package got deleted from the repository?

Is it possible that it will come back or has to be resubmitted by No-IP.com?

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easy just compile follow this guide to compile Linux Dynamic Update Client (DUC) on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

How to install No-IP Linux Dynamic Update Client (DUC) on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

You will be able to install No-IP.com’s DUC in just a few minutes with terminal. Once you have opened up your terminal window you will need to login as the “root” user. You can become the root user from the command line by entering "sudo -s" followed by the root password on your machine.

cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://www.no-ip.com/client/linux/noip-duc-linux.tar.gz
tar xf noip-duc-linux.tar.gz
cd noip-2.1.9-1/
make install

You will then be prompted to login with your No-IP.com account username and password.

If you get "make not found" or "missing gcc" then you do not have the gcc compiler tools on your machine. You will need to install these in order to proceed.

Source and more information to how to configure the client -> HERE

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Ubuntu – Why are downloads from Canonical Partners repository so slow

Ubuntu attempts to select a local mirror of the repositories that are geographically close to you. The partner repo doesn't have any mirrors because of copyright issues (AFAIK -- it's non-free software) so you end up using the London-hosted copy. PPAs are probably the same.

As you're in the Caribbean, I imagine traffic UK-bound would have to hop through the US before going trans-Atlantic to London. That's a long way for something to travel and if any of the links are bad or lossy, traffic can grind to a slow speed. At the least, response time is very slow.

If you want to test this further you can run ping archive.canonical.com and see what you get for a response time (I'm in England and get ~26ms). And as a general speedtest to London, you can run wget http://london1.linode.com/100MB-london.bin (1.3MB/s here).

As for fixing the problem... Canonical either need more, geographically-distrubuted servers for the partner repo, or you need to move closer to London.

Ubuntu – Where do I look for the reason for the removal of a package from the Ubuntu repositories

Most packages that are removed from Universe inherit that state from Debian. In order to find out the status of a package you can use the Debian Package Tracking System (PTS) to look it up:

http://packages.qa.debian.org/k/kompozer.html

Has the answer:

------------------- Reason -------------------
ROM; dead upstream
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This means the author(s) of the program have abandoned it.

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