On Friday, 17 February 2017 03:54:22 CET Felix Miata wrote: > I forgot to hold the non-broken mc version 4.8.17 before upgrading, so want > to revert to the older packages in the cache: > # ll /var/cache/apt/archives/mc* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 510906 May 8 2016 mc_3%3a4.8.17-1_amd64.deb > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512534 Oct 16 19:06 mc_3%3a4.8.18-1_amd64.deb > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1265158 May 8 2016 mc-data_3%3a4.8.17-1_all.deb > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1267428 Oct 16 19:06 mc-data_3%3a4.8.18-1_all.deb > > Nothing I try found via searching the web, e.g. "debian revert package"
I would install with dpkg the packages you still have in the apt cache, in order to downgrade to the old version, and then hold them.
