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I am trying to use apt-get to install a specific version of amsynth. If I simply do

sudo apt-get install amsynth

It installs version 1.3. However I would like to install version 1.4. After searching the archive, it seems 1.4 is available http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=sourcenames&keywords=amsynth.

I've allowed the universe packages (using the information in How do I enable the "Universe" repository?) and tried

sudo apt-get install amsynth=1.4.2-2

but the version cannot be found. How would I go about installing version 1.4?

Note: A potential solution is to install from https://launchpad.net/~nick-nickdowell/+archive/ubuntu/amsynth-master-daily.

However after running

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nick-nickdowell/amsynth-master-daily

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install amsynth

sudo apt-get upgrade

I still only have version 1.3 installed. The only clue I have as to why this doesn't work is that when running update I get in the console

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/nick-nickdowell/amsynth-master-daily/ubuntu/dists/trust‌​y/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found

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That will not work. You are using Ubuntu 12.04 or 14.04. How do you expect the system to know about the 1.4 version from a newer Ubuntu release?

If you want to install the newest version you could install from the personal archive https://launchpad.net/~nick-nickdowell/+archive/ubuntu/amsynth-master-daily Mind though: this will also probably uprade 1.3 to 1.4.

If you really want 1.3 and 1.4 together you need to install one of these from source so you can tell it to install in another directory.

You can pick "raring" as the latest release and version 1.4: 

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nick-nickdowell/amsynth-master-daily/ubuntu raring main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nick-nickdowell/amsynth-master-daily/ubuntu raring main 

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  • I only want version 1.4. I did try from the personal archive i.e. ran sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nick-nickdowell/amsynth-master-daily, sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get install amsynth and finally sudo apt-get upgrade. But this still only installed version 1.3. The only clue I have is that when running update I see W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/nick-nickdowell/amsynth-master-daily/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found which maybe implies there is something wrong with the personal archive? – rwolst Feb 19 '15 at 10:58
  • See http://ppa.launchpad.net/nick-nickdowell/amsynth-master-daily/ubuntu/dists/ Me does not see trusty amongst them :( Change your dist to "raring" :) – Rinzwind Feb 19 '15 at 11:13