Installation of older version of rsyslog

prash358 · January 16, 2013, 4:22pm

Hi,

I am trying to downgrade the version of rsyslog to the older version (i.e)

and when i issue the below command to check the packages i dont see the required package (i.e)

sudo apt-cache showpkg rsyslog
Package: rsyslog
Versions:
4.2.0-2ubuntu8.1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
Description Language:
File: /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages
MD5: d94b58ff2be5888c5b465281d17e5d27

4.2.0-2ubuntu8 (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-i386_Packages)
Description Language:
File: /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-i386_Packages
MD5: d94b58ff2be5888c5b465281d17e5d27

Reverse Depends:
rsyslog-relp,rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu8.1
rsyslog-pgsql,rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu8.1
rsyslog-mysql,rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu8.1
rsyslog-gssapi,rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu8.1
rsyslog-gnutls,rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu8.1
request-tracker3.8,rsyslog
ldirectord,rsyslog
rsyslog-doc,rsyslog 2.0.1-2
rsyslog-doc,rsyslog 2.0.1-2
logcheck,rsyslog
initscripts,rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu3~boot1
zoneminder,rsyslog
xwatch,rsyslog
snort-pgsql,rsyslog
snort-mysql,rsyslog
snort,rsyslog
rsyslog-relp,rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu8
rsyslog-pgsql,rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu8
rsyslog-mysql,rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu8
rsyslog-gssapi,rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu8
rsyslog-gnutls,rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu8
request-tracker3.8,rsyslog
psad,rsyslog
ldirectord,rsyslog
heartbeat,rsyslog
fwlogwatch,rsyslog
auth2db,rsyslog
ufw,rsyslog
ubuntu-minimal,rsyslog
rsyslog-doc,rsyslog 2.0.1-2
rsyslog-doc,rsyslog 2.0.1-2
logcheck,rsyslog
initscripts,rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu3~boot1
Dependencies:
4.2.0-2ubuntu8.1 - libc6 (2 2.4) zlib1g (2 1:1.1.4) upstart-job (0 (null)) lsb-base (2 3.2-14) adduser (0 (null)) ucf (2 0.8) rsyslog-mysql (16 (null)) rsyslog-pgsql (0 (null)) rsyslog-doc (0 (null)) rsyslog-gnutls (0 (null)) rsyslog-gssapi (0 (null)) rsyslog-relp (0 (null)) logrotate (0 (null)) linux-kernel-log-daemon (0 (null)) system-log-daemon (0 (null))
4.2.0-2ubuntu8 - libc6 (2 2.4) zlib1g (2 1:1.1.4) upstart-job (0 (null)) lsb-base (2 3.2-14) adduser (0 (null)) ucf (2 0.8) rsyslog-mysql (16 (null)) rsyslog-pgsql (0 (null)) rsyslog-doc (0 (null)) rsyslog-gnutls (0 (null)) rsyslog-gssapi (0 (null)) rsyslog-relp (0 (null)) logrotate (0 (null)) linux-kernel-log-daemon (0 (null)) system-log-daemon (0 (null))
Provides:
4.2.0-2ubuntu8.1 - system-log-daemon linux-kernel-log-daemon
4.2.0-2ubuntu8 - system-log-daemon linux-kernel-log-daemon
Reverse Provides:

and when i try to install it is complaining about package not found.

Please advise on how to install the required older version.

Below is the uname output

DGPickett · January 18, 2013, 4:25pm

Did you try apt-get remove on the existing version?