How to Downgrade Packages in Arch Linux - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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Clive
Downgrading packages can be a real pain, since sometimes the current package is a dependency for other stuff (especially true if you need to downgrade a library). It is one good reason to upgrade your system on a regular basis as then any downgrade will have limited dependency issues with other software.
On Debian, I tend to keep the old deb packages archived and can use dpkg for downgrades. [Incidentally, Kdenlive is version 19.12.0 on debian (unstable / deb-multimedia) -seems- not to have the problem you identified, so the issue may have been fixed in the latest upgrade,]
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Downgrading packages can be a real pain, since sometimes the current package is a dependency for other stuff (especially true if you need to downgrade a library). It is one good reason to upgrade your system on a regular basis as then any downgrade will have limited dependency issues with other software.
On Debian, I tend to keep the old deb packages archived and can use dpkg for downgrades. [Incidentally, Kdenlive is version 19.12.0 on debian (unstable / deb-multimedia) -seems- not to have the problem you identified, so the issue may have been fixed in the latest upgrade,]
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Ryan
Hey man, I just wanna say I love your content you inspired me to jump into the Linux world I was distro hopping around and found kde to be my favorite DE and started on debian stable and just last week decided to jump to manjaro , your content is really informative and down to earth Linux sometimes isn't the friendliest community for a noob lol but cheers man keep it up
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Hey man, I just wanna say I love your content you inspired me to jump into the Linux world I was distro hopping around and found kde to be my favorite DE and started on debian stable and just last week decided to jump to manjaro , your content is really informative and down to earth Linux sometimes isn't the friendliest community for a noob lol but cheers man keep it up
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Shadoww
Had to down grade to kernel 5.3.13 as the 5.4.8 was freezing up on me from time to time and non of the fixed worked. It works just don't for get the headers and use the non Linux virtual box kernel drivers and it worked for me. I hope they fix 5.4 as my vega graphics card does not like it, in skyrim it caused skipps.
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Had to down grade to kernel 5.3.13 as the 5.4.8 was freezing up on me from time to time and non of the fixed worked. It works just don't for get the headers and use the non Linux virtual box kernel drivers and it worked for me. I hope they fix 5.4 as my vega graphics card does not like it, in skyrim it caused skipps.
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Samuel
Where does it source the old package versions from? Judging from the -was installed- symbol I'd guess that it's not from your cache, so it must be somewhere else, and when I was looking around on the arch repository I couldn't find any way to specify a old version of packages.
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Where does it source the old package versions from? Judging from the -was installed- symbol I'd guess that it's not from your cache, so it must be somewhere else, and when I was looking around on the arch repository I couldn't find any way to specify a old version of packages.
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-Michael
Referring back to your video making Arch stable, downgrading the kernel, slowing down the rolling release and now downgrading packages, I think you have the beginnings of a new distribution. You can call it Debian-Arch or -DebArch-. :P
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Referring back to your video making Arch stable, downgrading the kernel, slowing down the rolling release and now downgrading packages, I think you have the beginnings of a new distribution. You can call it Debian-Arch or -DebArch-. :P
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HewFreBie
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Philippe
I tried downgrade for KDE Plasma desktop and it failed to do a good job. So for a group package like a desktop i prefer to use Timeshift and then write pacman.conf to ignore the group package to avoir upgrade.
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I tried downgrade for KDE Plasma desktop and it failed to do a good job. So for a group package like a desktop i prefer to use Timeshift and then write pacman.conf to ignore the group package to avoir upgrade.
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Andy
Arch is definitely bleeding edge and bugs do often appear when freshly upgraded so this is good to know. Running vanilla Debian and Arch here (best of both worlds). Thanks Chris for this info.
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Arch is definitely bleeding edge and bugs do often appear when freshly upgraded so this is good to know. Running vanilla Debian and Arch here (best of both worlds). Thanks Chris for this info.
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Njul
would have been nice to show how to downgrade manually, without using the downgrade package (ie. install cached package from the pacman cache, ignore updates in pacman.conf as you showed).
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would have been nice to show how to downgrade manually, without using the downgrade package (ie. install cached package from the pacman cache, ignore updates in pacman.conf as you showed).
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rhysperry111
This video helped me so much. Botched something on my system last night and was going to reinstall, but then you said TimeShift at the end and I remembered that I have backups
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This video helped me so much. Botched something on my system last night and was going to reinstall, but then you said TimeShift at the end and I remembered that I have backups
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