<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">A specific version of a package can be selected for installation by</span><br style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">following the package name with an equals (=) and the version of the package to select. This will cause that version to be located and selected for install. Alternatively, a specific distribution can be selected by following the package name with a slash (/) and the version of the distribution or the Archive name (i.e. stable, testing, unstable).</span><br style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"> </span><br style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">source: </span><a href="http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get" class="" title="External link" rel="nofollow external" style="color:rgb(15,114,218);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get</a><br style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><br style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><br style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">So this is saying to me you don't need the PPA to install the latest version but can instead do:</span><br style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><package>=<version></span><br style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><br style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">If that is so we don't need to add PPAs to our systems. IN other words PPAs are just a way to make it so that we are always running the latest version of the package regardless of if it works whereas we choose what we want to run with:</span><br style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><package>=<version></span><br style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px"><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">That is very Linuxy of them!</span><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div>
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