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Article from Issue 192/2016
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Klaus Knopper answers your Linux questions.

Downgrading Packages

Hi Klaus, how can I select a specific version, possibly an older one, of a package to install in Debian if I want to avoid the newest version of, for example, Chromium from the "unstable" branch?

To see the current available versions of a package, you have to update the package catalog first. I sometimes even delete the old package catalog lists (first line) to make sure all of them get downloaded again,

sudo rm -f /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo apt-get update

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