Installing source package of a speicified version (the one installed) in Ubuntu
Colin Law
clanlaw at googlemail.com
Tue Nov 19 21:02:26 UTC 2013
On 19 November 2013 20:43, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Here:
> running
> apt-cache policy lxc
> shows:
>
> lxc:
> Installed: 0.9.0-0ubuntu3.7
> Candidate: 0.9.0-0ubuntu3.7
> Version table:
> 1.0.0~alpha1-0ubuntu13~ubuntu13.04.1 0
> 100 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
> raring-backports/universe amd64 Packages
> *** 0.9.0-0ubuntu3.7 0
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
> raring-updates/universe amd64 Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 0.9.0-0ubuntu3 0
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe amd64 Packages
Please don't top post, it makes it difficult to follow the thread. Thanks.
That is odd, I would have expected it to install the later version
from universe.
Does it do anything (or show anything unusual) if you do
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Colin
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 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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