Re: Help! I upgraded ssh, it doesn't work, I want to go back to an earlier version.

[Michael Epting <epting@ix.netcom.com>]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:42:55PM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
> 
> Foolish me: I'd been happily running ssh 1:2.2.0p1 on my Potato
> system, and then I upgraded to ssh 1:2.2.0p1-1.1.  (I got both of
> those versions from "unstable".)  Well, that newer version doesn't
> work on potato, because it requires a newer libc.  I don't care to
> upgrade libc, and ssh is now brokenly installed, and will not start.
> What's the simplest way for me to get a working ssh 2.2.0 server
> again?

Why not

dpkg --purge ssh

then look in /var/cache/apt/archives/ for the older .deb

then dpkg --install olddebfile.deb