Rationale: It happened that a security update of mozilla-browser made the browser crash when logging to my live journal account. Rolling back to the previous version solved the problem until a new security update corrected the problem
- Find the version of the faulty package
export COLUMNS=132 dpkg -l mozilla-browser Souhait=inconnU/Installé/suppRimé/Purgé/H=à garder | État=Non/Installé/fichier-Config/dépaqUeté/échec-conFig/H=semi-installé |/ Err?=(aucune)/H=à garder/besoin Réinstallation/X=les deux (État,Err: majuscule=mauvais) ||/ Nom Version Description +++-===========================-===========================-====================================================================== ii mozilla-browser 1.7.8-1sarge7.2.1 The Mozilla Internet application suite - core and browse
- Find the previous version of the browser
Doing a package search on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages show me that last version before update was 2:1.7.8-1sarge7.1 If you need an older version version of the package, you can have a look at http://snapshot.debian.org
- Downgrade the package
apt-get install mozilla-browser=2:1.7.8-1sarge7.1 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mozilla-browser: Depends: libnspr4 (= 2:1.7.8-1sarge7.1) but 2:1.7.8-1sarge7.2.1 is to be installed E: Broken packages
- Resolve dependencies
apt-get install mozilla-browser=2:1.7.8-1sarge7.1 libnspr4=2:1.7.8-1sarge7.1
- Pin point this two packages so further "apt-get upgrade" won't upgrade then
You have to put in /etc/apt/preferences (create the file if it doesn't exist )
Package: mozilla-browser Pin: version 1.7.8-1sarge7.1 Pin-Priority: 1001 Package: libnspr4 Pin: version 1.7.8-1sarge7.1 Pin-Priority: 1001
- Make bug report about the regression