Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-20 Thread Felix Miata
Eric Barault composed on 2018-11-19 22:22 (UTC+0100): > have you tried this version? It worked for me on top of debian stretch-slim: > https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20180701T205743Z/pool/main/f/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_52.9.0esr-1~deb9u1_amd64.deb I hadn't, but it's now installed and

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-19 Thread Eric Barault
have you tried this version? It worked for me on top of debian stretch-slim: https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20180701T205743Z/pool/main/f/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_52.9.0esr-1~deb9u1_amd64.deb

subject:"Re\: discover and install specific package version"

2018-11-19 Thread Eric Barault
have you tried this version? It worked for me on top of debian stretch-slim: https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20180701T205743Z/pool/main/f/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_52.9.0esr-1~deb9u1_amd64.deb

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 08:53:19AM +0100, john doe wrote: > Using Bash you could use functions or aliases: > > search_pkg() { aptitude search -F '%p %V' --disable-columns ${1}; } You probably want "$@" there (with quotes) instead of $1.

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-17 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 06:12:12AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Reco composed on 2018-11-17 13:45 (UTC+0300): > > > On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 05:36:25AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > >> I knew 52.9 was released upstream in June, so I kept trying June archive > >> dates > >> and stopped

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-17 Thread Felix Miata
Reco composed on 2018-11-17 13:45 (UTC+0300): > On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 05:36:25AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> I knew 52.9 was released upstream in June, so I kept trying June archive >> dates >> and stopped when I found one containing 52.9. Upstream release bz2 that I >> previously wgeted turn

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-17 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 05:36:25AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > 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 >

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-17 Thread Felix Miata
Reco composed on 2018-11-17 11:14 (UTC+0300): > 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*

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-17 Thread Felix Miata
songbird composed on 2018-11-17 03:55 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: > ... > was this version ever downloaded to begin with? Not "to begin with". > if so it may still be in the cache... > check /var/cache/apt/archives It's there because I put it there with wget, but that hasn't helped

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-17 Thread songbird
Felix Miata wrote: ... was this version ever downloaded to begin with? if so it may still be in the cache... check /var/cache/apt/archives songbird

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-17 Thread Reco
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 n

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-16 Thread john doe
On 11/17/2018 8:35 AM, 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 >>> pe

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-16 Thread Felix Miata
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 ar

Re: discover and install specific package version

2018-11-16 Thread Reco
Hi. 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

discover and install specific package version

2018-11-16 Thread Felix Miata
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)) 2-http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/firefox-