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Julien
Julien

Reputation: 2319

Ubuntu install package from specific PPA

Is there any way on Ubuntu from the command line to specify from which repository to install a certain package?

I need to install a package from our own PPA, which works fine for all the packages we have except that one of them is named "watchdog" and when I try to install it, the watchdog installed is from another PPA and therefore a completely different software.

I was hoping there would be an option to pass to the apt-get install command that would allow me to specify from which repo to install but from what I can see in the docs there is no such thing and every google search I did was fruitless.

Any idea how to do this without having to rename our software package?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7178

Answers (1)

klobucar
klobucar

Reputation: 6335

You can specify a version of the software in apt after the package name with an = sign. i.e apt get install watchdog=your.version.number+company-etc

Upvotes: 1

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