How can I downgrade a package?

hehejo · 2004-10-13 16:02:55

Hi!

I want to downgrade Mozilla-Thunderbird.
0.8.1 is buggy on my Notebook.
If I want to "send later" a mail with more than one attachment then the hole thunderbird crashes!
It crashed today as I tried to open a mail with an attachment.

How to downgrade it???

xerxes2 · 2004-10-13 16:11:56

hello,
there is no rule that you can downgrade packages but I just checked that this package is available,

step by step:
1: download the package, easiest done with your browser
here is a german mirror ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/suns … /archlinux
it's in the "current" repo I think,

2: change to the directory with the package,

3: run "pacman -U packagename...pkg.tar.gz

good luck

Dusty · 2004-10-13 17:36:17

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dow … 20packages

xerxes2 · 2004-10-13 20:57:50

thanks Dusty,
I havn't seen that one before,
I didn't know that pacman saves old packages in the cache,
if that is the case here then hehejo can skip step 1 and 2,

paranoos · 2004-10-13 22:14:10

the solution to this is to upgrade to j2re 1.5 from Testing. I had the same problem

hehejo · 2004-10-14 11:00:44

paranoos wrote:

the solution to this is to upgrade to j2re 1.5 from Testing. I had the same problem

It's only the lack of Java "5" that causes all the trouble?
Ok, then I will get it.

Hopefully that action won't kill my old 1.4.2 one - cause I dont't know if java3d works with "Java 5", too.

But I will try!
Thank you.

edit
The upgrade to java 5 solved my problems with mozilla-thunderbird!

Dusty · 2004-10-14 15:31:00

hehejo wrote:

Hopefully that action won't kill my old 1.4.2 one - cause I dont't know if java3d works with "Java 5", too.

It does... mostly. I haven't used the latest version, but it works with the beta 1. The only thing is, every time I exit my J3D app, I get a VM error. This may have been fixed in the final release though.

Do you have a J3D package, or did you install it direct? I'm thinking of setting up a repository for some of these packages...

Dusty

dp · 2004-10-14 18:19:55

hehejo wrote:

paranoos wrote:
the solution to this is to upgrade to j2re 1.5 from Testing. I had the same problem
It's only the lack of Java "5" that causes all the trouble?
Ok, then I will get it.
Hopefully that action won't kill my old 1.4.2 one - cause I dont't know if java3d works with "Java 5", too.
But I will try!
Thank you.
edit
The upgrade to java 5 solved my problems with mozilla-thunderbird!

this mozilla-thunderbird needs this dependency set explicitely ... post a bug against thunderbird

hehejo · 2004-10-25 17:17:20

Dusty wrote:

Do you have a J3D package, or did you install it direct? I'm thinking of setting up a repository for some of these packages...
Dusty

Sorry that I didn't answer.

I have installed it directly via a file from sun.

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#1 2004-10-13 16:02:55

How can I downgrade a package?

#2 2004-10-13 16:11:56

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