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Igzilla

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Registered: 2008-07-19

Posts: 7

[Solved]Pacman won't downgrade package

Hi,

I'm trying to downgrade hplip, as the latest update has messed about with my photo printing and now leaves ugly white borders around everything. I've tried downgrading to the previous version which worked fine, but pacman returns the message:

bash-3.2# pacman -U hplip-2.8.7-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
loading package data...
error: 'hplip-2.8.7-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz': cannot open package file

Am I missing something obvious here? Any help gratefully received.

Thanks,

Igzilla

Last edited by Igzilla (2008-09-30 18:42:11)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: [Solved]Pacman won't downgrade package

do a "ls" in that directory and see if hplip-2.8.7-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz is there

Last edited by wonder (2008-09-30 17:50:13)

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fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: [Solved]Pacman won't downgrade package

When using pacman -U you have to specify the specific file (with full path if necessary).  I think the above error message can be translated as "Cant find hplip-2.8.7-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz file".

Igzilla

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Registered: 2008-07-19

Posts: 7

Re: [Solved]Pacman won't downgrade package

Ah-ha! It was that obvious! Thank you all very much )