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I want to install a specific version of sphinx on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server. I'm using Chef but I think that's incidental to my question.

I know generally one can do:

apt-get install some_package=version

However I cannot seem to find the correct version number/name for sphinx 2.2.4. I have tried the following:

2.2.4
2.2.4-4699-0ubuntu10
2.2.4-4699-0ubuntu10_amd64

And I get Version '2.2.4-4699-0ubuntu10' for 'sphinxsearch' was not found (or similiar).

You can see the package listed here. I have already added the PPA and updated.

What am I doing wrong?

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  • Does apt-cache show sphinx show the same version numbers?
    – wurtel
    Oct 8, 2014 at 9:32
  • apt-cache show sphinx gave me Unable to locate package sphinx, as did apt-cache policy sphinx. (Once I actually added the PPA successfully) apt-cache show|policy sphinxsearch gave version numbers like 2.2.4-4699-0ubuntu10.
    – Andy Stewart
    Oct 9, 2014 at 10:32
  • Ah, the package name is sphinxsearch, not sphinx... confusing when you state you want to update sphinx but you mean something else.
    – wurtel
    Oct 9, 2014 at 13:19

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Ah, it turned out that adding the PPA had failed so its packages weren't available.

Adding the PPA failed because the add-apt-repository command wasn't available. This was resolved by first apt-get install python-software-properties.

Here's the complete solution:

apt-get install python-software-properties
add-apt-repository -y ppa:builds/sphinxsearch-daily
apt-get -y update

# inspect the available packages
apt-cache policy sphinxsearch

apt-get install -y sphinxsearch=2.2.4-4699-0ubuntu10
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