Ubuntu 12.04 LTS apt-get Package Manager Problems/Questions [closed]

Question

I have 3 questions.

This is an example scenario I encountered. I have yasm .86 but I need v1 and it is there in the launchpad repo. However, I am not able to download it with

apt-get upgrade yasm does not do it.

Also, I am newbie so could you tell me why some installation does not show up using

apt-cache search

What is the best way to search for packages installed.

I understand checkinstall runs make install, however how can we run make install with verbose mode, not using checkinstall? Is there a switch for make install? (Sorry if it is a silly question)

Thanks for all the answers.

Stephen Myall · Answer 1 · 2012-08-19 06:27:58Z

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How to install specific version.

This will show available version

apt-cache showpkg yasm

This will install the version you want

#apt-get install packagename=version
apt-get install yasm=v1

edited Aug 19 '12 at 6:27

Stephen Myall
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answered Mar 25 '12 at 4:51

Taylor Bioniks
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	`apt-get install yasm=v1` Does this override the default versioning? I mean sometimes, it just says latest version even though it isn't. Also, when I try to manually download from launchpad (.deb) and install, it gives me a warning, it is not compliant with the latest release repo or something like that. – blacks0ul Mar 27 '12 at 6:57
	This will override the version, but you might wish to remove the version you have installed first. also in synaptic you can click force package version. – Taylor Bioniks Mar 27 '12 at 7:12

closed as not constructive by Jorge Castro, Ringtail, Eliah Kagan, gertvdijk, Eric Carvalho Jan 5 at 1:21