finding previous package version
 

I recently did a large upgrade in wheezy, and now I want to downgrade a
certain package to the previous version. Is there some way to get my
hands on that previous version?

Specifically, the upgrade brought up debian bug #665004, which made my
touchpad scrolling stop working right. The bug report indicates the
culprit is the upgrade of xserver-xorg-input-synaptics from version
1.5.0-2 to 1.5.99.901-1, and that downgrading fixes it. But I don't
know where to find the older package. The other distributions have an
even older version (1.4.x), which is maybe too old.

-David


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finding previous package version
 

I think you can do it by editing your preferences (man apt_preferences)



You'll basically have to inform the package name, the version you wish to get back and the most delicate to set : the priority.



On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 18:52 -0400, David Zelinsky wrote:


I recently did a large upgrade in wheezy, and now I want to downgrade a
certain package to the previous version. Is there some way to get my
hands on that previous version?

Specifically, the upgrade brought up debian bug #665004, which made my
touchpad scrolling stop working right. The bug report indicates the
culprit is the upgrade of xserver-xorg-input-synaptics from version
1.5.0-2 to 1.5.99.901-1, and that downgrading fixes it. But I don't
know where to find the older package. The other distributions have an
even older version (1.4.x), which is maybe too old.

-David









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Aves

finding previous package version
 

On Fri 20 Apr 2012 at 18:52:26 -0400, David Zelinsky wrote:

> I recently did a large upgrade in wheezy, and now I want to downgrade a
> certain package to the previous version. Is there some way to get my
> hands on that previous version?

http://snapshot.debian.org/


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