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 > switch (one line per > package))
aptitude search -F '%p %V' --disable-columns <pkg_here> > 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]. Reco [1] https://snapshot.debian.org
