On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:05:50PM -0500, Good Times wrote: You might want to start wrapping your lines at ~72 characters and not toppost. > i want to downgrade this package There is also a newer version out now that doesn't seem to have that problem. > but i've never been able to find the best way to do it > > i believe /etc/apt/preferences is the best way, but then what is the > best way to find the previous version of the package? Well, it could be in /var/cache/apt/archives. But for downgrading one package, I normally just use a previously downloaded copy and use dpkg. > i see from this mail what it is, but for next time, is there an option > to apt or dpkg that will give me all the previous versions of a > package? If you want all the versions listed, try "apt-cache policy foo". > ps. > > this list doesn't reply-to and i keep forgetting that, so i > accidentally sent it to the poster and not the list Since it would appear that you are using mutt, why don't you just use list reply? -- Seneca seneca-cunningham@rogers.com
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