Comment 12 for bug 297789

Tiberiu Cristea wrote on 2009-04-08:
> In Windows or MacOS X anyone can fix this issue by themselves, by just visiting the developer's site and
> downloading the latest version. This bug clearly shows how the centralised repository system is a failure.

You are terribly wrong and your saying is not based on real-world facts and are misleading.

You can always go to developer page and use non-packaged installation of programs and install on your Linux system. (like you were quoting windblows solution).
But on GNU/Linux you have another option, too:
Packaging and repositories gives you benefit that you don`t need to do search>download>install on all
of your 1000`s machines, but they do it alone, quietly and if package is updated in repository it is updated
on ALL machines in the whole world, running that repo/package repository.
Also such updates are tailored to exact system, tested, maintained and supported.

Please, don`t argue in the future about things you don`t understand fully, thanks.