On Tuesday 04 Nov 2003 05:47, Greg Stark wrote: > to list the available revisions then explicitly > > apt-get install libc6:2.3.2-8 > > Actually this wouldn't really have helped my friend at all because he was > unlucky enough that the *first* version of libc6 from unstable that he saw > happened to be the buggy one. That doesn't really happen that often to > libc6 so he had particularly bad luck there.
Er, doesn't apt-get install libc6=2.3.2-8 do exactly this? man pages are a wonderful thing.