diff --git a/debian/roles/common/tasks/main.yml b/debian/roles/common/tasks/main.yml
index 6533285..5cf05a2 100644
--- a/debian/roles/common/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/debian/roles/common/tasks/main.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   - restart rsyslog
   - restart cron
 - name: Install required packages
-  apt: pkg={{ item }} state=present
+  apt: pkg={{ item }} state=latest
   with_items:
      - most
      - zsh
diff --git a/debian/roles/webservers-nginx/tasks/main.yml b/debian/roles/webservers-nginx/tasks/main.yml
index 4e06ab9..c9f3b9c 100644
--- a/debian/roles/webservers-nginx/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/debian/roles/webservers-nginx/tasks/main.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 - name: Add nginx upstream repository
   apt_repository: repo='deb http://nginx.org/packages/debian/ wheezy nginx' state=present update_cache=yes
 - name: Install nginx package
-  apt: pkg=nginx state=present
+  apt: pkg=nginx state=latest
 - name: Stop nginx for now and also make it start on boot
   service: name=nginx state=stopped enabled=yes
 - name: Make nginx related dirs