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Short question: I have reason to install a specific version of nfs-common on a new machine. I want to install 1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1. I believe that I need to sudo apt-get install nfs-common, but I'm not sure how to specify the version. I've tried the obvious of:

$ sudo apt-get install nfs-common=1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1
E: Version '1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1' for 'nfs-common' was not found

Long question: I'm trying to install nfs-common over a docker image. At first attempt, I just did apt-get install nfs-common. This failed, presumably because:

The problem is that nfs-common has been updated in the backports repo, but portmap has not, and the new nfs-common and old portmap are not compatible. So to install it either disable backports, or use force version to install the previous version of nfs-common.

— Source: Crunchbang.org: [SOLVED] nfs install failure.

OK, I'm happy to force a previous version of nfs-common. This would match another machine that was setup months ago, presumably before the latest version was available. Going to that machine and running apt-cache policy nfs-common, I see it has installed 1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1. Looking at man pages for it and:

  1. How to install specific version of some package?
  2. How to install specific Ubuntu packages, with exact version?

I see that I need to do something like apt-get install nfs-common=1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1. However, I cannot figure out the exact syntax. When I tried the above, I received E: Version '1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1' for 'nfs-common' was not found. I received the same error if I used 1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.2, which is the default version that's installed.

Obviously I'm not understanding something about the version specified, and I can't seem to find any examples on the web for installing a specific version of nfs-common (or some component that I can map to installing an old nfs-common).

Any help would be appreciated.

Additional note: I tried following the advice at Debian User Forums: nfs-common and dpkg errors. I had to add an apt-get update. However, doing the apt-get install nfs-common ended up failing with

dpkg: error processing package nfs-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nfs-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Here you can download the package in .deb . Another solution is to install through apt-get the closest lower version, which is available, ie. 1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1 if that would do.

EDIT 1

It installs easily too, at least from 1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1 up in case it doesn't.

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EDIT 2

But you need to check yourself if it works alright. You will anyhow :-).