How to downgrade gtk+2.0 package to workaround bug #693758?

Question

As it seems that I've been hit by the bug #693758 I am willing to downgrade gtk+.2.0 from 2.23.3 to 2.23.2. But it seems that I have no package with such a name in my system :-( how do I downgrade it then?

Answer 1

In this particular case for 32-bit:

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/60749847/libgtk2.0-0_2.23.2-0ubuntu4_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-all libgtk2.0-0_2.23.2-0ubuntu4_i386.deb

or for 64-bit

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/60749886/libgtk2.0-0_2.23.2-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-all libgtk2.0-0_2.23.2-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb

Answer 2

If the previous version is still available from the repositories you should be able to list it with:

apt-cache policy libgtk2.0-0

To install a specific version of a package use (on this example the version is 2.22.0-0ubuntu1):

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0=2.22.0-0ubuntu1

Please note that downgrading packages is not supported, but likely to work without problems in most cases.