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#5135: Gdebi should allow installing of older packages than the version installed
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Written by Whise the 19 Mar 08 at 17:11.
Category: Brainstorm.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Doesnt make much sence not allowing to install older versions of a program the the version already installed... sometimes older versions work better , of course i can open sinaptic and completly remove the program and then try again , but why should i?
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Endperform wrote on the 19 Mar 08 at 17:49
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There's a major problem with this. If the older version of a package depends on an older library, but a newer library is installed, it may not work correctly anyway, and trying to install old versions of libraries would lead to system instability.
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shovelhead wrote on the 19 Mar 08 at 20:33
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Yep - you get the "warning" message that there is an older version available, but you neither know if there's benefit in using it nor how to install...
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Whise wrote on the 20 Mar 08 at 00:55
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@Endperform , then you should be promped with a question if you want to removed the newer libraries and install the older ones , thats what we do in sinaptic when we really want to
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roderick wrote on the 20 Mar 08 at 04:49
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Well, if you can run dpkg from the commandline and it allows you to install the older one, then gdebi should mimic this behaviour.
I had an instance where a newer wine was b0rked, and installing an older one was the temporary fix. I had to resort to the commandline and dpkg. It should have worked in gdebi.
I agree that there should be a warning, but it should be just that - a warning - and still allow the user the choice with the warning and possible consequences. Dependencies in the packages are usually quite good, and reverting to an older package should force appropriate downgrades of any required libraries as well, if applicable.
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