Re: How do I install older software versions?
On Sunday 28 Sep 2008, Aniruddha wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 21:03 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> > If you have the .deb files in the cache (/var/cache/apt/archives) then
> > you can try to install the .deb files directly using the "dpkg -i"
> > command. You can also do something like
> >
> > sudo apt-get install package=version
> >
> > if the package is available in the cache (or in some other repository).
>
> The problem is that when you need an package that you haven't installed
> before, the package it isn't in cache (the same goes for a fresh testing
> install). Moreover an accidental apt clean could easily wipe out your
> careful build up cache.
>
> Is it possible to have a local copy of an apt mirror? I have 5 machines
> that can sync with a local apt-mirror and that way I can have better
> version control.
>
I use debmirror to maintain a local mirror of lenny binaries. You need to be
careful about how much you choose to mirror or you'll end up with an
extremely large bandwidth/storage requirement. My local mirror is about
20GB.
Jim
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