PPA: Install old version
I am trying to install package qelectrotech
on ubuntu 18.04.
After installing I got (old) version 0.5-2
. So I added a PPA (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scorpio/qelectrotech-dev
) source to get the newer version. But they don't work automatically. Now I need to manually force "downgrade" and look for the version to get a new version of 0.90
.
After checking, I realised that my ubuntu system added some version info before the actual version!
I see old (original 0.5-2
) the old version 1:0.5-2
and the version in PPA (new 0.90.r7446
) as 0.90.r7446
.
As 0.90.r7664
seems older than 1:0.5-2
, I always get the old version installed instead of the new. So how to get rid of that 1:
, as this is not the part of the original version?
Thank you
First, create a new folder, and enter it.
mkdir qelectrotech && cd qelectrotech
Then, download the relevant packages from the PPA.
wget https://launchpad.net/~scorpio/+archive/ubuntu/qelectrotech-dev/+files/qelectrotech_0.90.r7446-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/~scorpio/+archive/ubuntu/qelectrotech-dev/+files/qelectrotech-data_0.90.r7446-1ubuntu1_all.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/~scorpio/+archive/ubuntu/qelectrotech-dev/+files/qelectrotech-examples_0.90.r7446-1ubuntu1_all.deb
Now, remove the version installed from the official repositories, and install the .deb packages
sudo apt remove qelectrotech
sudo apt remove qelectrotech-data
sudo apt remove qelectrotech-examples
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Now install any missing dependencies
sudo apt install -f
Finally, hold the packages in apt
, so that it does not update to the "new version" which is actually older.
sudo apt-mark hold qelectrotech qelectrotech-data qelectrotech-examples
The bad moment here is that you do not want to read QElectroTech-dev
PPA description on its page.
The developer clearly states:
QElectroTech Ubuntu Repository for 0.9 devel version.
Ubuntu pinning
The following entry assigns a high priority to all versions of the QElectroTech package beginning with 0.80. :
This way, your system will download the higher package version from the ppa and not those from the official Ubuntu repositories.Create manually the file 40qelectrotech-devel in /etc/apt/preferences.d/ and add these 3 lines:
Package: qelectrotech*
Pin: version 0.90.*
Pin-Priority: 1001https://qelectrotech.org/wiki_new/start?id=en/doc/install_ubuntu
apt-get install qelectrotech qelectrotech-data qelectrotech-examples qet-tb-generator
So you need to really create such file with relevant version by using command below:
cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/40qelectrotech-devel
Package: qelectrotech*
Pin: version 0.90.*
Pin-Priority: 1001
EOF
and then install these 0.90 versioned packages by:
sudo apt-get install qelectrotech qelectrotech-data qelectrotech-examples