Can a package be returned to a previous version

[Volker Wysk]

Hi

Am Mittwoch, dem 04.10.2023 um 06:37 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
> Hello.
> 
> As mozzarilla have downgraded and sabotaged Thunderbird to the latest 
> version 115.3.1 (64-bit) so as to increase fraud, email spoofing and 
> otherwise malicious email, by concealing senders' email addresses and 
> recipients' email addresses, after having made the mistake of "updating" 
> Thunderbird to this sinister and defaced version, I am wondering whether 
> it is possible to upgrade it to the previous, safer, and, more usable, 
> version, without uninstalling it and trying to find an installable 
> package of the previous version.

You can specify the version to be installed by the "apt" command with an
equal sign and the version. This is to follow the package name. See the
apt(8) man page under "install, reinstall, remove, purge".

Cheers,
Volker
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