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phunni

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From: Bristol, UK

Registered: 2003-08-13

Posts: 768

Downgrading a package

What's the best way to perform a package downgrade with arch?  Specifically, I want to downgrade fluxbox-devel from 0.9.9 to 0.9.8

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: Downgrading a package

Check in /var/cache/pacman/pkg to see if the file fluxbox-devel-0.9.8.pkg.tar.gz exists. If it does, you can:

pacman -R fluxbox-devel
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/fluxbox-devel-0.9.8.pkg.tar.gz

If not, you will have to either modify the PKGBUILD and build from scratch, or get the old PKGBUILD from the CVS archive.

As a note, there are some plans for package rollbacks sometime in the future.

I'll add this question to the wiki faq later.

Dusty

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rasat

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From: Finland, working in Romania

Registered: 2002-12-27

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Re: Downgrading a package

I also needed to downgrade and found this download link for 0.9.8:
http://easylinuxguide.com/downloads/arc … pkg.tar.gz

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