Bill Jonas on Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:41:17 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] un-upgrade in debian 

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:49:09PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> > If you haven't run 'apt-get clean' or 'apt-get autoclean', then find the
> > file in /var/cache/apt/archives and just run 'dpkg -i' on it.  Or find
> > it on ftp.debian.org (or a mirror) in a directory, for example, like
> > /debian/pool/main/v/vorbis-tools/.
> 
> Do you need to remove the newer package first?

No.  dpkg will print a message warning you of the downgrade, but it will
go ahead and do it.  Also, depending on what depends on the package, you
might need to revert several packages.

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