> Is there anyway to downgrade to the previous version, or would that
> be non-productive?
I'm sure there are more elegant ways to do it but I would do this:
first the command:
#dpkg -l | grep cups
on my system you would see this, the unstable versions.
[everything installed would be proceeded by the 'ii' symbols]
ii cups1.5.2-5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii cups-bsd 1.5.2-5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD commands
ii cups-client 1.5.2-5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
clientprograms(SysV)
ii cups-common 1.5.2-5 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - common files
etc. etc...
Then the command:
#apt-cache show cups
Among a lot of information on the versions in the cache supposing you
had 'apt-cache' installed and the relevant sources.list, you would see:
Version: 1.5.0-13 [testing in AMD64 and i386]
Version: 1.5.2-5 [unstable in AMD64 and i386]
Version: 1.4.4-7+squeeze1 [stable in AMD64 and i386]
From this example if 'I' wanted to downgrade from 'unstable' to 'testing' I
would, based on what I saw from the '#dpkg -l | grep cups' command
remove i.e. 'purge' in this case all the unstable versions installed.
#dpkg -P cups1.5.2-5 cups-bsd1.5.2-5 cups-client1.5.2-5 cups-common1.5.2-5
etc etc..that is to say all the installed unstable version numbers.
after that use the command:
#dpkg -i cups1.5.0-13 cups-bsd1.5.0-13 etc etc..until you've reinstalled all
the testing versions of the unstable versions you just removed.
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