Apt Cache

 2022-11-02

apt, the commandline package manager for Debian, Ubuntu and derivatives, has a nice way to list available versions of packages to install.

Here the output from Debian bookworm/sid, x86_64:

apt-cache policy git
git:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:2.38.1-1
  Version table:
     1:2.38.1-1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages

Here the output from Debian bookworm/sid, riscv64:

apt-cache policy git
git:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:2.37.2-1
  Version table:
     1:2.37.2-1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports sid/main riscv64 Packages

This can then later be used to specify exactly which version to install:

sudo apt install -y git=1:2.38.1-1