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Re: revert package instructions found do not work

From solitone <solitone@mail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: revert package instructions found do not work
Date 2017-02-17 10:10 +0100
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On Friday, 17 February 2017 03:54:22 CET Felix Miata wrote:
> I forgot to hold the non-broken mc version 4.8.17 before upgrading, so want
> to revert to the older packages in the cache:
> # ll /var/cache/apt/archives/mc*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  510906 May  8  2016 mc_3%3a4.8.17-1_amd64.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  512534 Oct 16 19:06 mc_3%3a4.8.18-1_amd64.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1265158 May  8  2016 mc-data_3%3a4.8.17-1_all.deb
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1267428 Oct 16 19:06 mc-data_3%3a4.8.18-1_all.deb
> 
> Nothing I try found via searching the web, e.g. "debian revert package"

I would install with dpkg the packages you still have in the apt cache, in 
order to downgrade to the old version, and then hold them.

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revert package instructions found do not work Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-02-17 10:00 +0100
  Re: revert package instructions found do not work solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-02-17 10:10 +0100
  Re: revert package instructions found do not work Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-02-17 10:10 +0100
  Re: revert package instructions found do not work Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-02-17 10:10 +0100

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