Reversing broken updates

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Wed, 12/9/09, James Taylor <gmane at oakseed.demon.co.uk> wrote:

From: James Taylor <gmane at oakseed.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Reversing broken updates
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 3:26 AM

James Taylor wrote:

> scar wrote:
> 
>> James Taylor wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to know how best to revert to an earlier version of 
>>> PulseAudio. The reason is that an update to PulseAudio broke my ability 
>>> to capture sound on my netbook.
>> 
>> you can use synaptic package manager (in system > administration).
>> search for pulseaudio, then highlight the package.  now, select package
>> force version and you can downgrade it.
> 
> Ok, I'll try that. Thanks.
> 
> But first, another backup... ;-)

D'Oh! I've just discovered that aptitude has the same feature. Somehow I 
missed it, but once I knew it was possible in Synaptic, I tried harder 
and found it. In aptitude you just select the package and press v which 
then shows the available versions, cursor to the right one, and install 
it in the normal way. Easy when you know how. I mention it here for 
future reference.

I suppose you mean the aptitude gui instead of the cli interface.  If no, would you please give the cli command to do that.  I would be  most interested if it could be done with the cli interface.  Thanks
Leonard Chatagnier

lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net

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