Thread: aptitude keeps trying to install old version of a package

so have installation of 12.04 lts server , i'm working particular third-party app has own .deb repository, i've used without issues on previous versions of ubuntu.

.deb installer latest version crashed when tried , didn't install successfully. evidently known problem, per googling.

did an

code:

aptitude remove packagename

though didn't remove of pieces, had delete few directories , user group.

thought i'd try older version of package, i've never done before , had up. did

code:

aptitude install packagename=old.version.number

but older installer crashed too, again removed , deleted directories aptitude didn't remove.

when do

code:

aptitude install packagename

without version number it's trying install old version! figure cached somewhere i've tried these:

code:

aptitude remove --purge packagename  aptitude clean  aptitude autoclean

to no avail, , tried same commands apt-get no luck; aptitude tries install old version of package.

, i'm noticing when try install it, aptitude seems downloading latest version trying install older version:

code:

get: 1 http://caucho.com/download/debian/ unstable/universe resin i386 4.0.29 [23.8 mb]  fetched 23.8 mb in 13s (1,804 kb/s)  setting resin (4.0.23) ...

so: happened? how work same way did before experimented older version?

okay, so, reason third time tried specifying current version so:

code:

aptitude install packagename=current.version.number

it worked when hadn't before, dunno why.

i'm still curious if knows happened here, if there's command have reset everything, , whether i'm going have issues when new version released.

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