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Short question: I have reason to install a specific version of nfs-common on a new machine. I want to install 1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1. I believe that I need to sudo apt-get install nfs-common, but I'm not sure how to specify the version. I've tried the obvious of:

$ sudo apt-get install nfs-common=1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1
E: Version '1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1' for 'nfs-common' was not found

Long question: I'm trying to install nfs-common over a docker image. At first attempt, I just did apt-get install nfs-common. This failed, presumably because:

The problem is that nfs-common has been updated in the backports repo, but portmap has not, and the new nfs-common and old portmap are not compatible. So to install it either disable backports, or use force version to install the previous version of nfs-common.

— Source: Crunchbang.org: [SOLVED] nfs install failure.

OK, I'm happy to force a previous version of nfs-common. This would match another machine that was setup months ago, presumably before the latest version was available. Going to that machine and running apt-cache policy nfs-common, I see it has installed 1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1. Looking at man pages for it and:

  1. How to install specific version of some package?
  2. How to install specific Ubuntu packages, with exact version?

I see that I need to do something like apt-get install nfs-common=1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1. However, I cannot figure out the exact syntax. When I tried the above, I received E: Version '1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1' for 'nfs-common' was not found. I received the same error if I used 1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.2, which is the default version that's installed.

Obviously I'm not understanding something about the version specified, and I can't seem to find any examples on the web for installing a specific version of nfs-common (or some component that I can map to installing an old nfs-common).

Any help would be appreciated.

Additional note: I tried following the advice at Debian User Forums: nfs-common and dpkg errors. I had to add an apt-get update. However, doing the apt-get install nfs-common ended up failing with

dpkg: error processing package nfs-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nfs-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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  • On the machine you reference with the correct version, it looks as though apt-cache policy should also output the url associated with the package. Can you verify whether this url is accessible (in the apt sources list??) on the target machine? – tniles Dec 16 '15 at 22:41
  • Also, if you have the package itself downloaded on the reference machine, maybe you can just scp it over to the target machine and install it manually? – tniles Dec 16 '15 at 22:42
  • Although I might be able to fight uphill to get this working, it seems like I should be able to do apt-get install nfs-common=<default version>. It I could get that to work, I could try seeing if I could change the version from 1.2 to 1.1. But, I can't get that to work either.

    That said, regarding your specific suggestion, I see http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what to do with that information. I'm used to the basic usages of apt-get only.

     – user3550496 Dec 16 '15 at 22:57
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Here you can download the package in .deb . Another solution is to install through apt-get the closest lower version, which is available, ie. 1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1 if that would do.

EDIT 1

It installs easily too, at least from 1:1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1 up in case it doesn't.

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EDIT 2

But you need to check yourself if it works alright. You will anyhow :-).

  • sudo dpkg -i /tmp/nfs-common_1.2.8-6ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb returned: 
     nfs-common depends on libgssglue1; however:
  Package libgssglue1 is not installed.
 nfs-common depends on libnfsidmap2; however:
  Package libnfsidmap2 is not installed.
 nfs-common depends on libtirpc1; however:
  Package libtirpc1 is not installed.
 nfs-common depends on rpcbind (>= 0.2.0-6ubuntu1); however:
  Package rpcbind is not installed.```  Trying to install libgssglue1 gave me further errors.
    – user3550496 Dec 17 '15 at 00:01
  • this may seem stupid, but can you just double-click the file in GUI? –  Dec 17 '15 at 00:07
  • or: sudo apt-get install -f –  Dec 17 '15 at 00:10
  • if still in trouble, go over this one http://askubuntu.com/questions/140246/how-do-i-resolve-unmet-dependencies-after-adding-a-ppa –  Dec 17 '15 at 00:18
  • sorry, i might have flown off a bit. take a look at this one if you got stuck in my second comment http://superuser.com/questions/196864/how-to-install-local-deb-packages-with-apt-get –  Dec 17 '15 at 00:51
  • And i just noticed you're working on docker. Sorry, but I don't know this context, and you need to take this into account. –  Dec 17 '15 at 00:54