Reversing broken updates

[Tom H]

>>>> 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.

>> 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.

You can get the versions of a paclage that are available in your
enabled repositories with
apt-cache showpkg <packagename>

In the case of pulseaudio, there is only one Karmic version though.