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Nick_Nitro

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Registered: 2009-02-06

Posts: 3

downgrade virtualbox from archlinuxfr[SOLVED]

i upgraded virtualbox today from virtualbox 2.2.2-1 to virtualbox 2.2.4-1 from the archlinuxfr repo.
This version is crashing constantly on my system.
I tried to downgrade from the /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ dir with the "pacman -U virtualbox_bin-2.2.2-1.pkg.tar.bz2" command but no luck, it keeps telling me:

loading package data...
error: 'virtualbox_bin-2.2.2-1.pkg.tar.bz2': cannot open package file

How can i downgrade this package from my cache?
if i try to bunzip2 the package first it tells me

bunzip2: virtualbox_bin-2.2.2-1.pkg.tar.bz2 is not a bzip2 file.

so that won't be the solution.
can somebody help me with this?

Thanks

Last edited by Nick_Nitro (2009-06-03 13:45:22)

perbh

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From: Republic of Texas

Registered: 2005-03-04

Posts: 765

Re: downgrade virtualbox from archlinuxfr[SOLVED]

I might be missing something - but are the packages not all '.tar.gz'??
Me thinks you may have a wrong name (seeing it is also not recognized as a bzip).

Try a 'tar tvzf virtualbox_bin-2.2.2-1.pkg.tar.bz2' ...

Nick_Nitro

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Registered: 2009-02-06

Posts: 3

Re: downgrade virtualbox from archlinuxfr[SOLVED]

I might be missing something - but are the packages not all '.tar.gz'??
Me thinks you may have a wrong name (seeing it is also not recognized as a bzip).

Try a 'tar tvzf virtualbox_bin-2.2.2-1.pkg.tar.bz2' ...

No the packages for virtualbox from archlinuxfr are named .bz2 at the end.
And yes your tip helped me thanks , it are tape archive's(.tar) strange why do the call it .bz2 then?

after a reboot it worked, strange !!!!