How to revert to wine 1.5.4 on Ubuntu 12.04 using Synaptic?

AiluroDragon · Post by **AiluroDragon** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:18 am

I am using:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu
as an additional repository in Synaptic so I can use the latest (released) version of wine, 1.5.

Today, with the wine 1.5.5 update, I can no longer run World of Warcraft, so I'd like to revert to the 1.5.4 version until the latest released version works. Unfortunately, I can't force Synaptic to use 1.5.4 (perhaps because the repository no longer offers it? I'm really not sure how this works).

Is there a way I can get Synaptic to use 1.5.4?

[I realize that I could in theory download the git and compile it, but I've had no luck following the instructions for downloading, patching, and compiling on a 64-bit system based on the existing instructions in the wiki when I tried that a few weeks ago.]

AiluroDragon · Post by **AiluroDragon** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:00 am

(Couldn't do it using synaptic, but found some help in backing it out on the appdb page for WoW: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... &iId=24878)

sudo apt-get remove wine1.5 && sudo dpkg -i `find /var/cache/apt/archives/ | grep "wine" | grep "1.5.4"`

This command worked for me. Would still appreciate an answer to my original question, if there's someone with more knowledge of Synaptic who can help out.

xyz32 · Post by **xyz32** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 7:17 am

In RPM based distros there is a downgrade functionality in the package manager:

$> yum downgrade wine

Maybe apt-get has something similar implemented.

sportfreak2020 · Post by **sportfreak2020** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:09 am

There's no turnkey command, but you can do it manually.

You'll find a log of recent installations in several forms under /var/log:

/var/log/dpkg.log shows package status and version changes;
/var/log/apt/term.log shows a full log of console output during installations;
/var/log/aptitude shows installations (including upgrades)

The old packages might still be in /var/cache/apt/archives. Otherwise, you might be able to find a mirror that still has them..

after you find the version you are looking for, this should work:
dpkg -i /path/to/foo.deb

this is just something on top of my head .. hope it helps someone who is comes in looking for this in the future !! ::creepy::