Downgrade single package

sebastian-brandt

How can I reinstall a single package with an older version number?
I'd like to downgrade the "duplicity" package to the previous one: "0.8.16-23-1-x86_64" (got the number from eopkg history).
I tried:
sudo eopkg install --reinstall duplicity:0.8.16-23-1-x86_64 System error. Program terminated. Repo item duplicity:0.8.16-23-1-x86_64 not found

I think I got the syntax for specifying the version number wrong but could not find information in the documentation

algent

sebastian-brandt Why do you want to downgrade it? There is a new release duplicity version 0.8.19, maybe the issue you are having is fixed in that version.

Shannon repo for duplicity is here: https://packages.getsol.us/shannon/d/duplicity/
There you can download duplicity-0.8.16-23-1-x86_64.eopkg and install it with this command:
sudo eopkg it duplicity-0.8.16-23-1-x86_64.eopkg

Or you can install it directly:
sudo eopkg it https://packages.getsol.us/shannon/d/duplicity/duplicity-0.8.16-23-1-x86_64.eopkg

But if you run the update command it will be updated to 0.8.18 (the current version in the Solus repo).

sebastian-brandt

algent As to why downgrade: current version from repo reports a wrong version number and breaks dejadup. 0.8.16-23-1-x86_64 works fine.
Your installation instruction worked, thank you!

algent

Snap version of duplicity is also to 0.8.19. So you can try this too, until is updated in Solus.