Installing packages with the apt-get package manager on Ubuntu or Debian usually fetches the latest known version from the repositories. This is a comfortable behavior to use an up-to-date version of the package.

If you want to install a specific package version, you can do that by appending an equal sign and the version number to the package name:

sudo apt-get install package=version  

For example, the command to install Elasticsearch in version 6.2.4 looks like this:

sudo apt-get install elasticsearch=6.2.4  

That’s it! Awesome, huh 😃

If you run into issues it may relate to outdated repositories. Ubuntu and Debian may not ship or reference the latest package releases.