How to download a specific version of Duplicity

Question

How do I install a specific version of duplicity. The one I have is duplicity 0.6.21 and the one I want is 0.6.18

Answer 1

1. http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=duplicity

   

2. so we want the raring version: http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/duplicity shows:

   

3. The i386 leads to: http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/i386/duplicity/download and the amd486 leads to: http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/amd64/duplicity/download where you will find the actual .DEB file for download.

4. In short:

   • download i386
   • download amd64

and after it finishes double click the download and Ubuntu Software Center will do the installation. This does not always work for any download: it is possible that a package depends in something else that is not installed. The 2nd link above (this one) shows what packages it depends on.

Answer 2

Another method would be using the = operand in apt-get/aptitude:

sudo apt-get install duplicity=0.6.21-0ubuntu13

sudo aptitude install duplicity=0.6.21-0ubuntu13