<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"> --- On Wed, 12/9/09, James Taylor <gmane@oakseed.demon.co.uk> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: James Taylor <gmane@oakseed.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Reversing broken updates To: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 3:26 AM <div class="plainMail">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@sbcglobal.net </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>