Or you can bring your current install up to date using rsync, by going into the directory where Oolite is installed (usually, /usr/lib/Oolite if you installed as root):
@Winston I went to the dir where my current copy of Oolite lives - c&p your rsync line from your post into my command line - waited for ages and ages and ages and when it finished oolite appears (from file size and date) to be unchanged. Have I done something wrong?
john@new-ubuntu:~/Oolite-dev/1.71-maintenance/oolite.app$ ls -la
total 13656
drwxr-xr-x 3 john john 4096 2008-07-21 22:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 john john 4096 2008-06-03 22:23 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 john john 8169957 2008-06-02 15:42 oolite
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john 5768065 2008-07-21 22:51 oolite_stderr.txt
drwxr-xr-x 13 john john 4096 2008-06-08 21:31 Resources
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john 116 2008-11-11 10:59 stderr.txt
john@new-ubuntu:~/Oolite-dev/1.71-maintenance/oolite.app$
john@new-ubuntu:~/Oolite-dev/1.71-maintenance/oolite.app$ rsync -a rsync://rsync.alioth.net/oolite/dev/Linux-x86 .
Welcome to the alioth.net rsync service.
john@new-ubuntu:~/Oolite-dev/1.71-maintenance/oolite.app$ ls -la
total 13660
drwxr-xr-x 4 john john 4096 2008-11-11 11:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 john john 4096 2008-06-03 22:23 ..
drwxr-sr-x 4 john john 4096 2008-05-09 23:36 Linux-x86
-rwxr-xr-x 1 john john 8169957 2008-06-02 15:42 oolite
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john 5768065 2008-07-21 22:51 oolite_stderr.txt
drwxr-xr-x 13 john john 4096 2008-06-08 21:31 Resources
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john 116 2008-11-11 10:59 stderr.txt
john@new-ubuntu:~/Oolite-dev/1.71-maintenance/oolite.app$
I’ve only done it once, a while ago, but I’m pretty sure I just went ./whatever.package and got a bunch of scrolling text and flashing windows in the approved movie-like fashion.
I may be running an old version of the oxp (I have impcourier2) but the wiki seems to be down so I can't check if that's the case.
Even more strange. In the afternoon even a whois and a ping wasn't working. Now whois and ping/tracert works, but the side is still not shown. Nowbody has reported the same problem and I already thought that Winston banned me, because he wanted to get rid of my updates - paranoia :-)