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Posted: **Thu Jan 08, 2015 4:17 pm**

Hello,

I've recently upgraded to libtorent 1.0 using the Deluge PPA. However, this broke one of my favorite torrents.

How can I downgrade to the repository libtorrent version?

Removing and purging the ppa will also remove deluge...

Posted: **Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:03 pm**

Use "apt-get install <packagename>=<version>" to force a version different from the latest.

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2015 1:35 pm**

I've downgraded to libtorrent-rasterbar7 (0.16.11-1ubuntu1) from the ppa version.

However, the thin-client on my windows machine still reports libtorrent 1.0.1.0.

Is it just a bug?

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2015 2:28 pm**

Maybe you missed a package? Try

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dpkg-query -l "*torrent*" | grep ^ii

to check.

For example, when I try that, I get

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ii  libtorrent-rasterbar7    0.16.17-1ubuntu3~ppa1~trusty amd64        C++ bittorrent library by Rasterbar Software
ii  libtorrent-rasterbar8    1.0.1-1~ppa1~trusty          amd64        C++ bittorrent library by Rasterbar Software
ii  python-libtorrent        1.0.1-1~ppa1~trusty          amd64        Python bindings for libtorrent-rasterbar

If libtorrent-rasterbar8 (v1.0 and up) is installed, Deluge prefers that over libtorrent-rasterbar7 (up to v0.16.17something). So if you want it to use v0.16.17, just apt-get remove libtorrent-rasterbar8.

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2015 4:26 pm**

Thanks,

Running the command returns something very similar:

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ii  libtorrent-rasterbar7               0.16.19-0ubuntu1~trusty             amd64        C++ bittorrent library by Rasterbar Software
ii  libtorrent-rasterbar8               1.0.1-1~ppa1~trusty                 amd64        C++ bittorrent library by Rasterbar Software
ii  python-libtorrent                   1.0.1-1~ppa1~trusty                 amd64        Python bindings for libtorrent-rasterbar

running:

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apt-get remove libtorrent-rasterbar8

warns about also removing deluged & python-libtorrent:

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The following packages will be REMOVED:
  deluged libtorrent-rasterbar8 python-libtorrent
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 5,074 kB disk space will be freed.

I would very much like to not uninstall deluged, as it is configured with plugins and thin-client

.

Thanks.

On a related note, on the libtorrent sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libtorr ... ibtorrent/) there are two packages released the same day, with different naming conventions:

libtorrent-rasterbar-0.16.19.tar.gz --- 2014-12-07 --- 3.0 MB
libtorrent-rasterbar-1.0.3.tar.gz --- 2014-12-07 -- 3.3 MB

Any idea why the different naming convention?

Posted: **Sat Jan 10, 2015 12:18 am**

regarding the ppa: it would be nice to have older versions available via the ppa: if there is a error, which requires a temporary downgrade, you have to either compile an older version yourself or update to the main repository stable package which would be 1.3.6 or something for Debian.

Is this technically possible?

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 4:37 pm**

Anyone here?

An alternative would be to instruct the daemon to somehow use the older libraries if those are still available.

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