[aklug] Re: down-versioning an intall in ubuntu?

"man aptitude"

<..snip..>

            To select a particular version of the package, append
“=<version>” to the package name: for instance, “aptitude install
apt=0.3.1”. Similarly, to select a package from a particular archive,
append “/<archive>” to the package name: for instance, “aptitude install
apt/experimental”.

You may also want to 'hold' that version to prevent future upgrades. I
had to do something along that line to get Cacti and RRDtools working
under Deb5. Deb5's Cacti (0.8.7b) required RRDtools 1.2.x but 1.3.x was
in Deb5. I ended up forcing the install of the older version of rrdtools
via 'dpkg-install' and then telling aptitude to 'hold' that version to
prevent any upgrade to 1.3.x

-Sean

On 05/22/2010 06:54 PM, Lee wrote:
> Is there an easy way to down-version an installed package in ubuntu?
>
> details:
>
> have been using wview (http://www.wviewweather.com/) for a while, compiled from source.
> Last year saw you could do upgrades via synaptic, even though the file structure was
> different that the stock tar.gz. Once converted, worked fine until last version,
> wview-5.17.3. I'd like to go back to wview-5.17.2 to see if that'll work again. I can
> always do it from source, but if there's an easy flag to set in apt-get or aptitude or
> synaptic or whatever, I'd like to do that first.
>
> thanks,
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Received on Sat May 22 19:56:11 2010