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Jamess
Asked: 2011-07-23 11:43:33 +0800 CST

How to Roll back newly applied LTS Maintenance Upgrade to the Previous Version

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Is there a way to roll back a LTS Maintenance Upgrade to the previous version, say from 10.04.02 LTS from 10.04.03 LTS ?

I am not facing a problem now, but need to figure out means to back out the packages before I rollover to 10.04.03 LTS on my server, in case of any need.

10.04

2 Answers

  1. Note that the point releases of 10.04 are just roll-ups of the packages from the security and updates archives. If you have been regularly applying the updates to your server (which is the recommended behaviour), you are probably already at the new point release.

    If you have upgraded to a package that is causing you problems, you can downgrade a package. You can discover what versions of a package are available with the following command:

    apt-cache policy PACKAGE_NAME

    Note the version numbers it lists for each archive. You can install a specific version of a package with the following command:

    sudo apt-get install PACKAGE_NAME=VERSION_NUMBER

    You will be warned that you are downgrading the package.

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  2. Best Answer

    There is no one step process to roll-back all the updates done in a point release to the previous one. We will need to track and revert each of the updates.

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