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* 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 ☺ Grepable was not necessary, simply used to cut 45.9, 52.8, 60.3 and l10n from the output. >> 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. https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20180630T203831Z/pool/main/f/firefox-esr/ is part of sources.list. firefox-esr_52.9.0esr-1_arm64.deb is present there. ??? >>>> 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? 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 turned out to be dated 25 June. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
