do I understand this correctly?

[Michael Havens]

so then, <version> is just for lower than the version that are in the
apt-cache. glad I'm talking to you all about this because I just discovered
that after you run <package>=<version> you need to run :

sudo echo “package hold” | sudo dpkg –set-selections

I also discovered that to find the versions in the repository you  run:

apt-cache showpkg packagename

so is there no way to force a version into apt-cache? I just tried to force
the installation of the unstable version of the package (sudo apt-get
install kmymoney/unstable) but it seems as if it isn't called 'unstable' in
mint (ubuntu). Am I doing it wrong? What are the Archives called in Mint
(ubuntu)

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> help immensely. Thank you Mark.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
> wrote:
>
>> Michael,
>>
>> If all you have is the stable branch in your sources.list, then you won't
>> have access to any of the testing packages, even if you specify testing on
>> the command line with apt-get. apt-get has to know where to find the
>> package you want to download, which is why sources.list exists. If you want
>> to be able to install both testing and stable packages, then you have to
>> have both stable and testing branches listed in your sources.list.
>>
>> If you want to hold a package to a specific version or branch (stable,
>> testing, experimental), then you can "pin" that package to that version,
>> and all future updates will only use that version. Take a look at
>> http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html. However, you still have
>> to have the correct repositories listed in sources.list, and you have to
>> run an apt-get upgrade to update the local cache so the OS knows where to
>> find the packages you want.
>>
>> Hope that helps!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> A specific version of a package can be selected for installation by
>>> 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).
>>>
>>> source: http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get
>>>
>>>
>>> So this is saying to me you don't need the PPA to install the latest
>>> version but can instead do:
>>> <package>=<version>
>>>
>>> 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:
>>> <package>=<version>
>>> That is very Linuxy of them!
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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