Ubuntu – Information on package versions from old releases

package-management

The http://packages.ubuntu.com/ site provides great information on packages, with changelogs and much more, but only covers currently supported releases.

The rmadison program (devscripts package) will also give me command-line access to all versions of a package from currently supported releases (nice!):

$ rmadison gnome-mount
gnome-mount | 0.8~svn20080225-0ubuntu4 |         hardy | source, amd64, i386
gnome-mount | 0.8-2ubuntu1 | karmic/universe | source, amd64, i386

But I don't see a way to find e.g. what version was in intrepid, which is no longer supported. I know the intrepid release is available at http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/
but I don't want to have to go through each repository by hand.

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If you have the Packages files from old-releases.ubuntu.com, you can use madison-lite to query them, much as you would use rmadison to query the archive Packages files remotely.

To set this up, mirror http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/*/*/binary-*/* with your favourite mirroring tool. If you also want information about sources, also mirror http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/*/*/source

Then set up a configuration file, for example:

mirror /srv/mirror/old-releases/

If you add nothing else to the configuration, it will tell you about every architecture for every release.

To keep this up-to-date, you probably want to have a cron job that updates it somewhere in the beginning of December and June (because sometimes the migration of a release takes a little while).

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apt-get download $PKG
apt download $PKG
aptitude download $PKG

This doesn't require root privileges. The same can also be approximated using apt-get and wget:

wget $(apt-get install --reinstall --print-uris -qq $PKG | cut -d"'" -f2)

This will, however, fetch all packages required to install the package, so you can attempt to limit it instead:

wget $(apt-get install --reinstall --print-uris -qq $PKG | cut -d"'" -f2 | grep "/${PKG}_")

You can also put a wget line into a function, to be able to use it as a command apt-download with the package name as a parameter:

function apt-download { wget -c $(apt-get install --reinstall --print-uris -qq $1 | cut -d"'" -f2); }

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pgadmin3 (= 1.20.0-1.pgdg14.10+1) needs libstdc++6 (>= 4.9) and this package isn't available for Trusty and as you say in your comments

I need Ubuntu LTS, LST, stable (!)

don't add a PPA with higher versions of libstdc++6. These packages are an integral part of the system.

Install pgadmin3 (= 1.18.1-2) again

sudo apt-get install pgadmin3=1.18.1-2

and wait some days for Ubuntu 16.04, the next LTS release.

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