{"id":3978,"date":"2021-04-06T13:10:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2021-04-06T13:10:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:10:02","slug":"installing-a-specific-package-version-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/installing-a-specific-package-version-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing a specific package version on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Ubuntu and potentially other Debian based distributions, you can check the available versions of a package with the apt show command<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">apt show -a<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Example showing firefox versions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>~$ apt show -a firefox\nPackage: firefox\nVersion: 87.0+build3-0ubuntu0.20.04.2\nPriority: optional\nSection: web\nOrigin: Ubuntu\nMaintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team &lt;ubuntu-mozillateam@lists.ubuntu.com>\n..................\n More information\n..................\n\nPackage: firefox\nVersion: 75.0+build3-0ubuntu1\nPriority: optional\nSection: web\nOrigin: Ubuntu\nMaintainer: Ubuntu Mozilla Team &lt;ubuntu-mozillateam@lists.ubuntu.com>\nBugs: https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+filebug\n..................<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>To install a specific version, use the version number<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre id=\"block-19f93e86-5dbb-402f-b0ec-f4a8582ac0af\" class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo apt install firefox=75.0+build3-0ubuntu1<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Ubuntu and potentially other Debian based distributions, you can check the available versions of a package with the apt show command apt show -a Example showing firefox versions To install a specific version, use the version number<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28],"tags":[322,417,179,1205,762],"class_list":["post-3978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-ubuntu","tag-apt","tag-install","tag-package","tag-show","tag-version"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3979,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}