How to fetch a specific package updates?

Question

I wan to update a specific package (biblatex-ieee) that I use. I do not want to update my whole system (I need to maintain specific versions for some SWs). How to retrieve the updates of that specific package without updating the whole system?

Answer 1

You just have to do

sudo apt-get install texlive-bibtex-extra

as this package contains the needed biblatex-ieee.* files.

Also from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/bionic/+package/texlive-bibtex-extra :

This package includes the following CTAN packages:
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biblatex-ieee
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