Downgrade AUR Packages

Posted on:December 22, 2022 at 03:22 PM

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How to

There’s no easy way to downgrade or install a different version of a package except the latest one published in AUR.

These instructions allow you to downgrade a package or install any version that was published.

  1. Visit the AUR page of that package (I will use virtualbox-bin for this example)

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtualbox-bin

  1. Then, click View Changes

  1. Select the version that you want

  1. Click Download

  1. Now, extract the downloaded file
  2. Open a Terminal inside the new folder
  3. Build the package by typing makepkg

This will rebuild the package and create everything that is required to be installed by pacman.

In this case, it created the virtualbox-bin, virtualbox-bin-guest-iso and virtualbox-bin-sdk.

  1. Install the package using pacman
pacman -U virtualbox-bin-6.1.40-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst