RE: how to downgrade a package and set it to hold in dselect ?

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@home.com>]

On 18-Oct-2001 tim haegele wrote:
> hello all
> 
> topic says all.......
> 
> I like to downgrade binutils from version 2.11.92.0.5-3 to 2.11.92.0.5-2 . 
> How can I do this? Can it be done using dselect? 
> 

you need to find the deb for the older version and install it with dpkg.  Once
this is done do:

# echo "binutils hold"|dpkg --set-selections

Or to hold something in dselect, select it and use the '=' key.

dselect will only show you the latest version of a package.  In fact the
version you want may no longer exist.

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