Where to find older versions of packages?

[DeltaEntropy]

Hi,

I'm wanting to run a previous version of an application, qbittorrent-nox 4.3.9 in particular. Where can I find copy or where can I install it from?

I can get 4.3.8 from https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/release_3/All/qbittorrent-nox-4.3.8.pkg but can't find 4.3.9.

Thanks

 

[sretalla]

Not the pkg version, but maybe you can untar it over the 4.3.8?

qBittorrent - Browse /qbittorrent/qbittorrent-4.3.9 at SourceForge.net

A free and reliable P2P BitTorrent client

sourceforge.net

 

[DeltaEntropy]

Not quite as simple as untaring those binaries as they need to be compiled (make && make install), which led me down the a path to get the result I wanted.

So thank you heaps for that!

For anyone interested.

Start with a fresh jail of release 12.x (12.4 at the time of writing this). Then set the pkg repo to "release_3", I go into more detail about how to do that here.

Then follow the "INSTALL" file directions found in the root of the tar file mentioned above.

Install all the dependencies, I found I had to install all qt5 packages + openssl + and pkgconf = pkg-config. Then cd to the untar'd directory and follow that with:

Code:

./configure --disable-gui
make && make install
qbittorrent

Once this is done copy '/usr/local/bin/qbittorrent-nox' file to the same location in your 4.3.8 jail (you'll also need to install openssl, my hunch is that the pkg version of qbittorrent-nox has openssl compiled inside it).

Anyway, many gigabytes of packages installed just to get a ~7mb file.