Re: forcing dselect to downgrade

[Pedro Guerreiro <pguerreiro@bigfoot.com>]

On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 06:21:39PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> 
> You can not do it in dselect. Just ftp the package to your system and use
> dpkg like this:
> 
> dpkg --install --force-downgrade package.deb

I just do this:

dpkg --install package.deb

It gives a warning about downgrading to a previous package, but it works. I
have never needed to use the --force-downgrade option.

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Pedro Guerreiro (aka digito)    (pguerreiro@bigfoot.com)
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