Php – downgrade PHP 5.3 to 5.2 on lenny

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Unfortunately I did upgrade PHP to version 5.3, but it end up breaking up some web apps, now I'm trying to go back to 5.2. I removed both sources php53.dotdeb.org from /etc/apt/sources.list and I did apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, but it didn't downgrade anything.

Any ideas on how to go back will be appreciated

Thanks

Best Answer

Apt won't downgrade packages by default. What you want to do is for each of the packages you want to downgrade, run apt-get install <package>=<version to downgrade to>, so something like apt-get install php5-mysql=5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny3 for example.