Tom Ashcraft writes:
Clementine audio/music player version 'clementine/bionic 1.3.1+git276-g3485bbe43+dfsg-1.1build1 amd64' used by Ubuntu 18.04 flavors works perfectly for my particular needs.
However, on two older laptops for which I most value Clementine's abilities for downloading podcasts, the slightly newer/different Clementine version [ ... ] always fails with respect to the Music > Add Podcast > iTunes Search option.
It would help a lot if you knew why it was failing. Have you run it from the command line, with any applicable --verbose or --debug or whatever, to see if it prints any error messages? Keep in mind that the problem might not be in clementine, it might be in one of the other libraries it uses. Configuring apt to pull a newer version of a package is fairly easy, but I suspect pulling an older version of just one package is much harder. However, you could download the .deb directly: go to https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/clementine Scroll down to "Download clementine", click on your architecture (amd64 or whatever) and it will take you to a list of mirrors where you can download the .deb file. Once it's downloaded, you can try to install it with dpkg -i clementine_1.3.1+git276-g3485bbe43+dfsg-1.1build1_amd64.deb There's a reasonable chance that this will fail because it depends on specific versions of other packages that you don't have, in which case the problem gets way more complicated and risky. In that case, another option is to build from source. First get the dependencies: on one of these older laptops: sudo apt install build-essential fakeroot devscripts sudo apt build-dep clementine Then get the clementine source. Since you have inconsistent access to the internet (been there, done that, sympathize), I'd suggest getting both the Ubuntu deb-src that's known to work, and the git version. For the former, see "Download Source Package" on that packages.ubuntu.com link I gave earlier. Download the clementine_1.3.1+git609-g623a53681+dfsg-1build1.debian.tar.xz which you can build following https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial For git, do a search for "clementine git source", click on "Clone or download", copy the URL there, then run: git clone [copied URL] then follow the build instructions in the README. If you can't get it working, another good podcast downloader (not player) is podget. I used it for years until I switched to an Android podcast player. ...Akkana