Re: How do I install older software versions?
Aniruddha wrote:
> Coming from Gentoo I'm trying to understand how I should install older
> software versions in testing/unstable. Take for example the ATI drivers.
> In Gentoo's portage lots of versions are available. In APT I see only
> one. I wonder:
>
> 1) What happens with older versions? Where do they go?
The newer versions replace the older versions in testing.
> 2) How do I install older versions?
If you have the .deb files in the cache (/var/cache/apt/archives) then you
can try to install the .deb files directly using the "dpkg -i" command. You
can also do something like
sudo apt-get install package=version
if the package is available in the cache (or in some other repository).
hth
raju
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