[FIXED] stuck with old arts ? (how to force a package version downgrade)

[lmilano]

(UPDATE: this has been FIXED, see below...)

Hi,

I've been doing some post-upgrade cleanup. Oddly enough, it looks like two of my arts packages are unsupported (see screenshot). Their versions look weird too, like if they were a 7 KDE releases behind (3.5.1). Does this look broken ? Could someone else please what arts packages/versions they have installed ?

Many thanks!

[Rog131]

Re: stuck with old arts ?

Here (Gutsy, i386):

:~$ apt-cache show arts

Version: 1.5.8-0ubuntu1
Depends: libartsc0 (>= 1.5.8-0ubuntu1), libarts1c2a (>= 1.5.8-0ubuntu1)

:~$ apt-cache show libarts1c2a

Version: 1.5.8-0ubuntu1

[lmilano]

Re: stuck with old arts ?

Thanks, oddly enough, I don't see any newer version. I think the way to go will be to uninstall arts (this will uninstall a few KDE packages), and then reinstall everything. I think the problem is that the newer version looks like "older" (it has a smaller version number).

Thanks, again!

[lmilano]

Re: stuck with old arts ?

Arrgg, if I remove the two stuck packages it will uninstall about all of kubuntu. Anyone knows a trick from the command line ? (I read the man page for apt-get, but I couldn't find a way to remove a package ignoring its dependencies). My idea would be to just remove the packages, and then install them again

Thanks!

[lmilano]

Re: stuck with old arts ?

Ok, I SOLVED it. From Synaptic,

[Menu] ->[Package]->[Force Version]

I attached a few screenshots below in case it helps someone else. This info was very useful:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sy...ea6efd07727415