I need to look into an issue with an old version of a Debian package <pkg>
, and would like to download it in both binary and source forms.
A quick apt-cache show <pkg>
just displays the most recent versions of <pkg>
, but not a complete history.
Is there a way to display the version history of <pkg>
using APT?
apt show <package>
and the lineAPT-Sources
to define if main, contrib or nonfree, then look athttp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/[main,contib,non-free]/[letter]/[package]
- where letter is the first letter (or digit) of the package name (except for lib-type packages .... just take a look). You will find all version names there. Then install via e.g.apt install package=version
or manually download thedeb
and usedpkg
. – FelixJN Jan 27 '21 at 10:23