in-line :- On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi again,
Hi Jonathan, > shirish शिरीष wrote: > >> I don't really know how to use snapshot.debian.org or what should I >> give in the search box so I get the desired .deb package. > > That's fine. Here's a quick demo. > > In the source package name box, I enter: linux-2.6 > > Looking at 3.2.18-1, I get links to binary packages. If I trust my > DNS, the snapshot.debian.org mirror administrators, and any HTTP > proxies and routers that might be between me and there, I can download > the binary package from here and install it with gdebi. I tried the former. I wgetted the linux-image and then tried installing it via gdebi . I get this :- $ sudo gdebi linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64_3.2.18-1_amd64.deb [sudo] password for shirish: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Building data structures... Done This package is uninstallable A later version is already installed > If I am less trusting, I note the date the packages were seen for > reference: > > 2012-05-22 04:13:05 > > Now I add an entry for the next day to my sources.list: > > deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20120523T000000Z/ > unstable main > > As described on the snapshot.debian.org front page, I run > > apt-get -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false update > > then install the package: > > apt-get -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false \ > install linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64=3.2.18-1 > > and then I remove the entry from sources.list. Thanx for that, if there is no easy way then might as well try this way. > Hope that helps, > Jonathan -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
