Dear Paul, Thanks for your message; however, I tried it with catfish and unfortunately there is no alternative and versions 1.4.4–1 and 1.4.5 both have bugs, already registered and recognized by Canonical.
I have managed to install the “old” catfish, that works better. Best regards, Chico > On 22 Aug 2018, at 08:27, Paul White <1788...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > > Chico, "Force version" will only work where there is a choice of > versions available in the repositories. You might add a PPA but the > repository version gets installed instead. > > Try this: search for chromium-browser or firefox. "Force version" should > show the currently installed version through bionic-updates and the > version that was in the repositories when bionic was released. "Force > version" will allow you to downgrade if you really need to. > > To see if a package has multiple versions available, right-click on any > package, choose properties and on the versions tab you will see a list > of available versions. The package 0ad doesn't have any alternatives so > the option in the Package menu is correctly greyed out. > > I don't see a bug here so marking as "Incomplete" > > ** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1788194 > > Title: > Force version is not working in Synaptic Package Manager in XUbuntu > 18.04.1 > > Status in synaptic package in Ubuntu: > Incomplete > > Bug description: > To reproduce: > > 1. Open Synaptic and highlight any package (for instance, 0ad) > > 2. Go to Package menu and open it and note that Force Version (Ctrl + > E) is not at the user's disposal (right below Lock Version and Automatically > installed). > --- > ProblemType: Bug > ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2 > Architecture: amd64 > CurrentDesktop: XFCE > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 > InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-08 (317 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 > (20170801) > Package: synaptic 0.84.3ubuntu1 > PackageArchitecture: amd64 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-32.35-generic 4.15.18 > Tags: bionic > Uname: Linux 4.15.0-32-generic x86_64 > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo > _MarkForUpload: True > --- > ProblemType: Bug > ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2 > Architecture: amd64 > CurrentDesktop: XFCE > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 > InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-08 (317 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 > (20170801) > Package: synaptic 0.84.3ubuntu1 > PackageArchitecture: amd64 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-32.35-generic 4.15.18 > Tags: bionic > Uname: Linux 4.15.0-32-generic x86_64 > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo > _MarkForUpload: True > --- > ProblemType: Bug > ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2 > Architecture: amd64 > CurrentDesktop: XFCE > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 > InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-08 (317 days ago) > InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 > (20170801) > Package: synaptic 0.84.3ubuntu1 > PackageArchitecture: amd64 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-32.35-generic 4.15.18 > Tags: bionic > Uname: Linux 4.15.0-32-generic x86_64 > UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) > UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo > _MarkForUpload: True > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/1788194/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1788194 Title: Force version is not working in Synaptic Package Manager in XUbuntu 18.04.1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/1788194/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
