Switch between Regolith PPAs
This page describes how to configure the package system to consume Regolith packages between a set of PPAs.
Regolith PPAs
See this section for a description of each PPA. By default users will be on the release
PPA which is intended to only be updated upon bug fixes and versioned releases. Here is how to switch to the unstable
PPA, by updating the apt packaging configuration:
- Remove the existing
release
PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:regolith-linux/release
- Add the new
unstable
PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:regolith-linux/unstable
$ sudo apt update
- Upgrade packages to the upgraded versions contained in the new PPA:
$ sudo apt upgrade
Switch Back
To return to the previon configuration, simply follow the steps above but toggle the PPA URIs. So, swap unstable
for release
.
Once the PPAs have been switched, to revert any unwanted package updates from the unstable
repository, simply install the specific version you wish to revert to. For example, if regolith-deskop
has version 4 in unstable
and version 3 in release
, you would have been upgraded to version 4 after using the unstable
PPA and taking updates. To revert back to version 3 after swapping back to the release
PPA, tell apt
the specific version you wish to install:
$ sudo apt install regolith-desktop=3
The general form is apt install <package name>=<package version>
. You will be notified by apt
that the operation will result in a downgrade package version.
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