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  • Reverting back to the previous Chromium version

    From local10@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 12 06:20:01 2025
    Hi,

    Is there an easy way to revert back to the previous version of Chromium? I'm running Debian 12 Bookworm.

    I tried the following but it didn't work: 

    # aptitude install chromium=135.0.7049.52-1~deb12u1
    Unable to find a version "135.0.7049.52-1~deb12u1" for the package "chromium" Unable to apply some actions, aborting

    Thanks


    # aptitude show chromium
    Package: chromium                        
    Version: 135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1
    State: installed

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  • From Christian Britz@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 12 07:50:01 2025
    You could grab the .deb files from snapshot.debian.org

    Am 12.04.25 um 06:12 schrieb local10:
    Hi,

    Is there an easy way to revert back to the previous version of Chromium? I'm running Debian 12 Bookworm.

    I tried the following but it didn't work:

    # aptitude install chromium=135.0.7049.52-1~deb12u1
    Unable to find a version "135.0.7049.52-1~deb12u1" for the package "chromium" Unable to apply some actions, aborting

    Thanks


    # aptitude show chromium
    Package: chromium
    Version: 135.0.7049.84-1~deb12u1
    State: installed




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  • From local10@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 12 10:40:02 2025
    Apr 12, 2025, 05:44 by [email protected]:

    You could grab the .deb files from snapshot.debian.org



    Thanks, I found Cromium files I needed there and copied them to "/var/cache/apt/archives/". I know I can install them with dpkg but can it be done with aptitude? Somehow aptitude doesn't see that the old version files are available locally.

    Regards,

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  • From Greg Wooledge@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 12 14:10:01 2025
    On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 10:31:26 +0200, local10 wrote:
    Apr 12, 2025, 05:44 by [email protected]:

    You could grab the .deb files from snapshot.debian.org

    Thanks, I found Cromium files I needed there and copied them to "/var/cache/apt/archives/". I know I can install them with dpkg but can it be done with aptitude? Somehow aptitude doesn't see that the old version files are available locally.

    I don't know about aptitude, but apt (or apt-get) can do it, if you
    specify the path to the filename:

    apt install /var/cache/apt/archives/chromium_*

    The advantage of this over dpkg -i is that apt will install any needed dependencies at the same time.

    Personally, I might recommend that you keep the .deb file in some other location, so that it doesn't get removed accidentally by an "apt clean"
    or equivalent.

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