Re: Downgrading a package that is causing some problems in KDE
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:18:07PM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote:
>
> First of all, how can I find out what version of a package is installed
> on my system without going through synaptic or dselect, because
> sometimes I don't have access to an X session and the version number
> would be too long to be displayed in full in dselect. I am talking
> about libs, so I can't do 'name -v' type of thing.
>
Try aptitude.
> Finally, if it turns out that I need to get back to an old version of
> package 'whatsitsname', how can I do it? I tried to search debian.org
> for a package in unstable (this time it was xlibs-data), but the only
> available version is the one I have. Is there an archive for older
> versions of packages?
>
http://snapshot.debian.net
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