On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 02:35:57AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Reco composed on 2018-11-17 09:53 (UTC+0300): > > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 12:52:14AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > >> Web searches have not been helpful for these: > > >> 1-Which of apt* returns version numbers along with package names, one line > >> per result, when > >> searching? (in openSUSE, versions are returned by zypper search via the -s > >> switch (one line per > >> package)) > > > aptitude search -F '%p %V' --disable-columns <pkg_here> > > Surely there must be something simpler to be able to remember and type. :-p
You requested a greppable output. That's how they do things here ☺ > aptitude search -F '%p %V' --disable-columns firefox-esr | grep 52. returns > only one item: > firefox-esr-dev 52.9.0esr-1~deb9u1 > ??? As I wrote earlier, "the appropriate version of firefox-esr must be found in some repository that's listed in /etc/apt/sources.list". It's the same for me. > >> 2-http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/firefox-esr/ apparently has > >> what I want for Stretch, > >> esr52.9 by whatever name (Firefox-ESR or IceWeasel). How can I get the > >> cmdline package management > >> system (apt-???) to tell me which I can choose from other than installed > >> and latest? Searches tried > >> (e.g. apt-show-versions; apt list -a; apt-cache madison) only show 45.x > >> (installed) and 60.3 > >> (available). > > > apt install firefox-esr=52.9.0esr-1~deb9u1 > > > But, if you want this to work, the appropriate version of firefox-esr > > must be found in some repository that's listed in /etc/apt/sources.list. > > And it seems that they deleted that particular version from everywhere > > including [1]. > > > [1] https://snapshot.debian.org > > https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20180630T203831Z/pool/main/f/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_52.9.0esr-1_amd64.deb > exists > > No errors produced by apt update with the following in sources.list: > deb https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20180630T203831Z/ stretch main That snapshot of a main archive has firefox-esr version 52.6.0esr-1~deb9u1. Have you tried another date? Reco
