Where to find deb file for Blender 2.78c I've been using the Blender PPA which recently updated to 2.79.  However, I want to remain with 2.78c for a while, but I'm not sure how to get it from the PPA (or even if I can, or find a deb file.  We're using Ubuntu 16.04.

I can get a zip file from Blender.org, but I'm managing a lab full of computers with puppet and I've got mass install of deb files figured out, but not from zip...

Is there a Blender 2.78c deb file somewhere for Xenial or Debian Stretch?

Edit, the closest I've found is 2.78a: https://debian.pkgs.org/9/debian-main-amd64/blender_2.78.a+dfsg0-4_amd64.deb.html
I ran into the same problem last night. Fortunately, I found a copy of the original 2.78c package in my apt cache. Here is my solution:


purge any existing blender installation (via apt-get) sudo apt-get purge blender
add the ppa Thomas Schiex sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender;
sudo apt-get update; (Do not install blender from there directly. It would install 2.79 again, which we do not want here!)
download the 2.78c version of blender manually from here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4SAG_u19QW3RnhGYk5tU3kxekE (I would prefer a more official link to a working package here, but I found non.)
install the package via gdebi (assuming you downloaded to /home/$USER/Downloads): sudo gdebi /home/$USER/Downloads/blender_2.78c~1487946787-0thomas~xenial1_amd64.deb (dependencies are resolved from ppa Thomas Schiex)
Finished! Enjoy your 2.78c version of blender again.
to prevent from automatic updates, set the package to be unmodifiable: sudo apt-mark hold blender