How to downgrade a package in Arch Linux | Linux Today

How to downgrade a package in Arch Linux

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May 26, 2016

Arch Linux has a utility called “downgrade” that helps you to downgrade an installed package to any available older version. This utility will check your local cache and the remote servers (Arch Linux repositories) for the old versions of a required package and install it.

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