spamassassin doesn't seem to be working anymore

[Daevid Vincent]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Donkey Hottie
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 4:37 AM
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: spamassassin doesn't seem to be working anymore
> 
> 15.01.2013 22:05, Daevid Vincent kirjoitti:
> > I have a home server that has been working brilliantly for a few years.
> And
> > as the old saying goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." I just don't
> have
> > the time (or patience) to dick around with re-installing the latest
Ubuntu
> > just to get it to parity with what I already have working basically.
> >
> > Anyways, I have noticed over the past year let's say that I get a lot
more
> > spam in my inbox than I did when this first came out. Did something
change
> > with spamassassin and it's not updating the rules or whatever for this
> > version of Ubuntu anymore? I would think that the rules should be
> > 'universal' no?
> >
> > # lsb_release -a
> > No LSB modules are available.
> > Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> > Description:    Ubuntu 8.10
> > Release:        8.10
> > Codename:       intrepid
> >
> > # spamassassin --version
> > SpamAssassin version 3.2.5
> >   running on Perl version 5.10.0
> >
> > It is running.
> >
> > # ps aux | grep spam
> > 84:root      5733  0.0  0.6  29436 26864 ?        Ss   Jan10   0:31
> > /usr/sbin/spamd --create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir -d
> > --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid
> > 136:root      8447  0.1  0.8  39580 36904 ?        S    06:20   0:33
spamd
> > child
> > 139:root     13349  0.0  0.8  35856 33160 ?        S    08:28   0:02
spamd
> > child
> > 158:postfix  22214  0.0  0.0   7944  3564 ?        S    11:55   0:00
smtpd
> > -n smtp -t inet -u -c -o stress  -o content_filter spamassassin
> > 160:postfix  22218  0.0  0.0   5764  1752 ?        S    11:55   0:00
pipe
> -n
> > spamassassin -t unix user=spamassassin argv=/usr/bin/spamc -f -e
> > /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f ${sender} ${recipient}
> > 163:root     22324  0.0  0.0   3236   828 pts/0    R+   11:56   0:00
grep
> -i
> > -n --color=auto spam
> >
> > If I run "sa-update" it doesn't give any error (or message for that
> matter)
> >
> > # /usr/bin/spamassassin --lint
> > Returns to the next prompt without error or message too.
> >
> > I do have this crontab and it does run without error:
> >
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  904 2008-11-08 02:13
/etc/cron.daily/spamassassin
> >
> >
> >
> 
> You should really upgrade at least SpamAssasin. 3.2.5 is ancient, 3.3.2
> is now current and supported.

How can I update just spamassassin though since Ubuntu 8.10 is basically
unsupported and there are no repositories right?