How do you remove backports updates?
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I recently enabled backports. Now I have disabled it. How do I downgrade the apps it upgraded? I tried disabling it and then running sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade in terminal. That didn't seem to fix my issue.
You can reinstall them.
You can do that using Synaptic. Just open Synaptic and then Origin and then choose the backport repository, you can see your packages there.
After that, click on the package and from the navbar choose Package > Force Version, and choose the packages from the non-backport repo.
You're stuck in something of a rut now. The way apt works is that it
compares the installed versions of packages with the versions available
in repositories, and updates if a higher version number is available to
replace the existing installed version. Without reinstalling or
manually downgrading each and every package from backports, you will
just have to wait for the next Trisquel release to offer newer packages
in the base release.
One more thing- if this present system is really important to you and
you don't want to reinstall, one solution is to compare existing
package versions with those in the main repository, and uninstall those
with higher version numbers, reinstalling them from belenos,
belenos-updates, and belenos-security.
What's so bad about backports anyway? Why do you need to downgrade?
SalmanMohammadi has already given a good way to proceed: listing with the "Synaptic package manager" the packages whose "Origin" (a button in the bottom right corner of the interface) is "belenos-backports/*". By clicking on the "S" in the header of the list, the installed packages are moved at the beginning. In my case, those are eight packages. It therefore is easy to click on each of them, press Ctrl+E to "Force Version" and choose in the drop-down menu the "belenos-updates" (or "belenos-security" is there is no "belenos-updates", or "belenos" if there is neither of them).
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