Bug#95427: apt: It Would Be Nice if apt could downgrade from the command line
Downgrading works fine on a per-package basis using the 'package=version'
syntax.
mizar:[/tmp] dpkg -l hello
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii hello 2.1.1-1 The classic greeting, and a good example
mizar:[/tmp] sudo apt-get install hello=1.3-18
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED
hello
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 0 to remove and 2 not
upgraded.
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- mdz
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