Installing older versions of python packages with apt-get (specifically wxpython)

I've been beating my head against the wall trying to troubleshoot a graphical program with a WX backend. We've found that wxPython 2.8.10 work fine, and seemingly any newer releases doesn't. Despite all the help I received to building wxPython from source

http://ift.tt/1J4gGMv

http://ift.tt/15sSdSO

The build process failed, and we tried every single approach listed. In any case, we found that making a symbolic link to the system-python's wx worked fine, but unfortunately apt-get install left us with 2.8.12. My question is how can I apt-get install an older version of wxpython, or any package for that matter?

I'm on Ubuntu MATE 14.04, but have verified this problem occurs on OSX and Ubuntu 12, so it's probably not an OS-dependent issue.