Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread solitone
On Sunday, 11 June 2017 20:06:48 CEST Brian wrote: > if you change your sources.list to use a suitable > one from snapshot.debian.org it will be found. I didn't know that, thanks!

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread Brian
On Sun 11 Jun 2017 at 11:13:21 +0200, solitone wrote: > On Sunday, 11 June 2017 10:39:25 CEST Dejan Jocic wrote: > > In case that you are on stable, perhaps in old stable repository, or its > > backports, after you add those to sources.list. > > No, I'm on stretch, so I'm using the stretch repos

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 11-06-2017 05:06, solitone wrote: > But where do you find old packages in case you no longer > have them in /var/cache/apt/archives? http://snapshot.debian.org/ -- A rolling disk gathers no MOS. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread solitone
On Sunday, 11 June 2017 10:39:25 CEST Dejan Jocic wrote: > In case that you are on stable, perhaps in old stable repository, or its > backports, after you add those to sources.list. No, I'm on stretch, so I'm using the stretch repository: deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ stretch main non-free

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread Fungi4All
UTC Time: June 11, 2017 7:39 AM From: lisi.re...@gmail.com On Sunday 11 June 2017 08:16:11 Fungi4All wrote: > Below please find Lisi's answer on whether packages should be reverted or > not. !! There is nothing there - not surprising since I have never passed an opinion on any such thing. Does th

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 11-06-17, solitone wrote: > On Sunday, 11 June 2017 08:39:25 CEST Lisi Reisz wrote: > > please, Solitone, let me and the list know what I am supposed to have said. > > No Lisi, I don't have more info than the list regarding what you supposedly > said on this > topic :-) > > In any case, I'

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread solitone
On Sunday, 11 June 2017 08:39:25 CEST Lisi Reisz wrote: > please, Solitone, let me and the list know what I am supposed to have said. No Lisi, I don't have more info than the list regarding what you supposedly said on this topic :-) In any case, I've just removed the hold on the 4 chromium pa

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 11 June 2017 08:16:11 Fungi4All wrote: > Below please find Lisi's answer on whether packages should be reverted or > not. !! There is nothing there - not surprising since I have never passed an opinion on any such thing. Does the version that went directly to solitone have a complete

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread Fungi4All
With all the confusion on reply reply-all I has send her/him this UTC Time: June 10, 2017 10:06 AM From: fungil...@protonmail.com To: solitone UTC Time: June 10, 2017 9:55 AM From: solit...@mail.com On Saturday, 10 June 2017 05:45:22 CEST Fungi4All wrote: > apt > > Hold a package: > sudo apt-ma

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 10 June 2017 10:45:22 Fungi4All wrote: > UTC Time: June 10, 2017 7:42 AM > From: solit...@mail.com > > On Friday, 9 June 2017 23:38:40 CEST Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > I've never downgrade using apt, but with synaptic it's not too hard, > > Hi Jimmy, and thanks for your reply. I'm under Pl

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread Hans
Hi, I made best progress by using aptitude. However, you have to look at the dependencies yourself. How to handle: - Start aptitude with ncurses gui. - Mark the required to the former available version. - Look at the dependencies, you my have to set the dependend libs also to former versions

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 10-06-17, solitone wrote: > On Saturday, 10 June 2017 05:45:22 CEST Fungi4All wrote: > > apt > > > > Hold a package: > > sudo apt-mark hold > > > > Remove the hold: > > sudo apt-mark unhold > > That's ok. I can then: > $ sudo apt upgrade > to upgrade that package to the latest available v

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread solitone
--- Begin Message --- UTC Time: June 10, 2017 9:55 AM From: solit...@mail.com On Saturday, 10 June 2017 05:45:22 CEST Fungi4All wrote: > apt > > Hold a package: > sudo apt-mark hold > > Remove the hold: > sudo apt-mark unhold That's ok. I can then: $ sudo apt upgrade to upgrade that package to

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread solitone
On Saturday, 10 June 2017 05:45:22 CEST Fungi4All wrote: > apt > > Hold a package: > sudo apt-mark hold > > Remove the hold: > sudo apt-mark unhold That's ok. I can then: $ sudo apt upgrade to upgrade that package to the latest available version. But my question was: once I've upgrated it,

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread Fungi4All
UTC Time: June 10, 2017 7:42 AM From: solit...@mail.com On Friday, 9 June 2017 23:38:40 CEST Jimmy Johnson wrote: > I've never downgrade using apt, but with synaptic it's not too hard, Hi Jimmy, and thanks for your reply. I'm under Plasma Desktop, so I don't have synaptic--I use KDE's Discover. A

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread solitone
On Friday, 9 June 2017 23:38:40 CEST Jimmy Johnson wrote: > I've never downgrade using apt, but with synaptic it's not too hard, Hi Jimmy, and thanks for your reply. I'm under Plasma Desktop, so I don't have synaptic--I use KDE's Discover. Although I use it only for automatic updates. For instal

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-09 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 06/09/2017 09:44 PM, solitone wrote: I am on Debian 9 (scratch), and I have a MacBook Pro 12,1 with retina display. Few days ago I upgraded Google Chrome from version 58 to 59: google-chrome-stable:amd64 (58.0.3029.110-1, 59.0.3071.86-1) This new version no longer supports HiDPI. As a result

Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-09 Thread solitone
I am on Debian 9 (scratch), and I have a MacBook Pro 12,1 with retina display. Few days ago I upgraded Google Chrome from version 58 to 59: google-chrome-stable:amd64 (58.0.3029.110-1, 59.0.3071.86-1) This new version no longer supports HiDPI. As a result everything in Chrome is so small that I w