Installing source package of a speicified version (the one installed) in Ubuntu

[Colin Law]

On 19 November 2013 15:28, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am running Ubuntu 13.04
> When I try
> apt-get install lxc
>
> It installs  lxc 0.9.0.
> I veirfied this by checking, after "apt-get install lxc", thus:

What does
apt-cache policy lxc
show?

Colin

>
> dpkg -l lxc
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
> +++-==============-============-============-=================================
> ii  lxc            0.9.0-0ubunt amd64        Linux Containers userspace tools
>
>
> However, if I try to run:
>  apt-get source lxc
> I see the following files downloaded to the current directory:
> lxc-1.0.0~alpha1
> lxc_1.0.0~alpha1-0ubuntu13~ubuntu13.04.1.debian.tar.gz
> lxc_1.0.0~alpha1-0ubuntu13~ubuntu13.04.1.dsc
> lxc_1.0.0~alpha1.orig.tar.gz
>
> So it downloads a newer source package, of lxc_1.0.0~alpha.
>
> My question is: what should I do so that it will download the version
> of lxc which I have installed,   lxc-0.9.0, and not the newer one ?
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
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