On Tue, 8 May 2001, Tomasz Wzietek wrote: > suppose i have a working package. i decide to upgrade it, > so i download the deb and use 'dpkg -i' to install it. > let's say, there are some unsatisfied dependencies that > i don't want to resolve (let's assume that it would require > some further drastic upgrading). how do i go back to the > previously working older version of the package without > reinstalling it? <...> > is there a switch or another deb-* command that would do > the trick? or do i need to download the old version and > reinstall it?
If you have already installed the .deb, the old version is gone. "dpkg-repack" will create a .deb from an installed package. - Bruce
