Get latest version of package when not available for current distro

Question

Basically, I have this:

lucho@lucho-HP:~$ apt-cache policy dynare-matlab
dynare-matlab:
  Installed: 4.4.1-1build1
  Candidate: 4.4.1-1build1
  Version table:
     4.4.3-1~trusty1 0
        100 http://www.dynare.org/ubuntu/ trusty/contrib amd64 Packages
 *** 4.4.1-1build1 0
        500 mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt/ trusty/multiverse amd64 Packages
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Yet, apt-get upgrade won't upgrade from 4.4.1 to 4.4.3. Given my limited knowledge of upgrade and dist-upgrade, the former is not upgrading because some other packages need to be installed/removed (i.e I need to update distro from 14.04 to ...?). So, without updating distro, is there any way to get the latest package working?

Answer 1

Simple way:

apt-get install dynare-matlab=4.4.3-1~trusty1

Best way: Using priority like:

Assign higher priority to PPA