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Re: How to back-out an apt-get upgrade




Nick Willson wrote:

> Can an apt-get upgrade (or similar) be backed-out?  Say the upgrade appears
> to fail, is there a way to rollback to the previous state?  I am running
> 2.1.

APT stores the package files in /var/cache/apt/archives .

The older version(s) should still be there.


Michel


PS: You might be interested in 'apt-get autoclean'

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