I accidentally allowed a program with a subscription to update, and because I don’t want to pay for a new subscription, I want to downgrade by loading an older version. I found some hints here: Downgrade a package coming from AUR repository - #16 by Locutus
It talks about using Git to restore the file from the AUR repository, but looking up the git command, it’s pretty formidable if you’ve never used it.
I got this:
bash: /home/mark/.cache/yay/motivewave: Is a directory
[mark@mark-optiplex9020 ~]$ cd .cache/yay/motivewave
[mark@mark-optiplex9020 motivewave]$ ls -l
total 168536
-rw-r–r-- 1 mark mark 83326808 Jan 28 2023 motivewave-6.6.13.deb
-rw-r–r-- 1 mark mark 89231430 Dec 27 2022 motivewave-6.6.3.deb
drwxr-xr-x 3 mark mark 4096 Jan 28 2023 pkg
-rw-r–r-- 1 mark mark 914 Jan 28 2023 PKGBUILD
drwxr-xr-x 2 mark mark 4096 Jan 28 2023 src
[mark@mark-optiplex9020 motivewave]$
looks like it’s storing an older version than what I had most recently.
[mark@mark-optiplex9020 ~]$ ls -lah ~/.cache/paru/clone/motivewave
total 765M
drwxr-xr-x 3 mark mark 4.0K Dec 27 07:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 54 mark mark 4.0K Dec 4 13:15 …
drwxr-xr-x 8 mark mark 4.0K Dec 27 07:50 .git
-rw-r–r-- 1 mark mark 22 Nov 12 15:41 .gitignore
-rw-r–r-- 1 mark mark 98M Nov 26 2022 motivewave-6.6.10-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r–r-- 1 mark mark 80M Nov 26 2022 motivewave-6.6.10.deb
-rw-r–r-- 1 mark mark 81M May 21 2023 motivewave-6.6.15.deb
-rw-r–r-- 1 mark mark 86M Dec 27 2022 motivewave-6.6.3.deb
-rw-r–r-- 1 mark mark 115M Nov 12 15:42 motivewave-6.8.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r–r-- 1 mark mark 96M Nov 12 15:42 motivewave-6.8.3.deb
-rw-r–r-- 1 mark mark 116M Dec 27 07:51 motivewave-6.8.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r–r-- 1 mark mark 97M Dec 27 07:50 motivewave-6.8.6.deb
-rw-r–r-- 1 mark mark 962 Dec 27 07:50 PKGBUILD
-rw-r–r-- 1 mark mark 549 Dec 27 07:50 .SRCINFO
[mark@mark-optiplex9020 ~]$
version 6.8.3 is the one I’m trying to recover, just before the more recent 6.8.6