Re: Etch and openoffice: how to downgrade
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote:
> Thanks a lot.
> I need some other help.
>
> Brad Sawatzky wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote:
> >> I need to downgrade OO from 2.0.4 rc 3-1 to 2.0.3.
> >> How can I do this?
[ ... ]
> > With luck it is as simple as (for example):
> > sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org-impress_2.0.3-6.deb
[ ... ]
> > This also requires you to have the old version in your apt cache. If you
> > don't you should be able to download it from <http://snapshot.debian.net>.
> >
> I'm a little confused here.
> I was not able to download the package from there.
Try commenting out your normal source lines in /etc/apt/sources.list and
add:
deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2006/08/20/debian unstable main contrib non-free
then try
apt-get update
apt-get install openoffice.org=2.0.3-6
That should downgrade the whole kit for you. It looks like you'll run into
dependency problems if you just install the old impress package by
itself...
Don't forget to:
1) restore your old source lines, and
2) pin openoffice.org at 2.0.3-6 until 2.0.4 is fixed.
FYI, I just did a 'package search' for openoffice.org-impress and poked
around to find the appropriate date. You can find the individual debs at
<http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2006/08/20/debian/pool/main/o/openoffice.org/>
If you want to brute-force it you can always download the individual
packages and install them using dpkg.
HTH,
-- Brad
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