I think you can do it by editing your preferences (man apt_preferences) You'll basically have to inform the package name, the version you wish to get back and the most delicate to set : the priority.
On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 18:52 -0400, David Zelinsky wrote: > I recently did a large upgrade in wheezy, and now I want to downgrade a > certain package to the previous version. Is there some way to get my > hands on that previous version? > > Specifically, the upgrade brought up debian bug #665004, which made my > touchpad scrolling stop working right. The bug report indicates the > culprit is the upgrade of xserver-xorg-input-synaptics from version > 1.5.0-2 to 1.5.99.901-1, and that downgrading fixes it. But I don't > know where to find the older package. The other distributions have an > even older version (1.4.x), which is maybe too old. > > -David > > -- Regards, Aves
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