Re: downgrade Trixie from 14.1.5pre to 14.1.4 possible?

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On Sun August 24 2025 16:48:03 Felix Miata via tde-users wrote:
> # apt-cache policy tdm-trinity
> tdm-trinity:
>   Installed: 4:14.1.5~pre32-0debian13.0.0+3
>   Candidate: 4:14.1.5~pre32-0debian13.0.0+3
>   Version table:
>  *** 4:14.1.5~pre32-0debian13.0.0+3 100
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      4:14.1.4-0debian13.0.0+0 500
>         500 http://archive.trinitydesktop.net/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x
> trixie/main amd64 Packages #

See "man 5 apt_preferences".  You need a pin priority over 1000 to force a
downgrade:

> Never downgrade unless the priority of an available version exceeds 1000.
> ("Downgrading" is installing a less recent version of a package in place of
> a more recent version. Note that none of APT's default priorities exceeds
> 1000; such high priorities can only be set in the preferences file. Note
> also that downgrading a package can be risky.)

I don't have a Trixie TDE yet to test this but I'm thinking something like
this in maybe /etc/apt/preferences.d/tde.prefs would work:

Package: *
Pin: release o=trinitydesktop.org,n=trixie
Pin-Priority: 2000

After creating that file first run "apt-cache policy tdm-trinity" again
and see if it would pick the correct version.

--Mike



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