On Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:50:22 Jimmy Johnson wrote:

> I downloaded libkdecorations2-5_5.3.2-1_amd64.deb and 
> libkdecorations2private5_5.3.2-1_amd64.deb from
> https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian/pool/main/k/kdecoration/ to my 
> /home/jimmy and installed them one at a time
> using 'dpkg i libkdecorations2-5_5.3.2-1_amd64.deb' and 'dpkg i 
> libkdecorations2private5_5.3.2-1_amd64.deb' and was
> able to downgrade with no problems, all other packages have been upgraded, 
> rebooting and login with no problem.
> I hope this helps anyone who got hit by the bug. 

I was hit by the same bug in Debian testing and was able to downgrade those 
packages using snaphot.debian.org.

Here is what I did for the reference:

Created /etc/apt/preferences.d/snapshots
like this:

Package: *
Pin: origin "snapshot.debian.org"
Pin-Priority: 1001

Then created /etc/apt/sources.list.d/snapshots.list
like this:

deb     http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20150817T213310Z/ testing 
main contrib non-free
deb-src http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20150817T213310Z/ testing 
main contrib non-free

And then run:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

and it downgraded those packages to the working set. Don't forget to comment 
out or remove that preference and apt source after you downgrade the packages.

Regards,
Hillel Lubman.

Reply via email to