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 > >>>> 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.
The problem is - version 52.6.0 haven't made it into the "main" that date. They uploaded it into the "updates/main". Yes, these are different. Hence the suggestion to use a later date. I believe I have a way to simplify things here: cd /var/cache/apt/archives/ wget https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20180630T203831Z/pool/main/f/firefox-esr/firefox-esr_52.9.0esr-1_amd64.deb apt install ./firefox-esr_52.9.0esr-1_amd64.deb Note that this syntax of "apt install" does more than "dpkg -i stuff", dependency resolution in particular. Reco
