Roll back recent updates

[P. Echols]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 May 2015 11:37:26 -0700
> "P. Echols" <p.echo926 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Sorry if this is a duplicate.  The list does not seem to be sending my
> > copies back to me.
> >
> > A recent update to gscan2pdf (from the developer's ppa) has caused a
> > problem.  I have posted that problem to the gscan2pdf listserve.  But
> > I want to get it working again between now and a fix.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to identify and roll back updates without
> > uninstalling and going with the version in the repos?  (The PPA
> > version fixes another problem found in the version shipped with Ubu
> > 14.04)
>
> You can remove the currently installed package with apt-get, and
> install any version you want by specifying the version following the
> package name.
>
> Something like:
>
> apt-get install foobar-1.2-4
>

Thanks,  Good to know.  As it turned out, the developer gave a pointer to
the prior .deb that I could install with dpkg -i .  As of today, it also
looks like a fix has been put in the PPA.
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