How to download a package with a specific version number?

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How to download a package with a specific version number?

Seems to me the latest wine package cannot handle the fflush() function.
Older versions have no problem.
So, I want to uninstall wine and install an older version.

Alternatively, downgrade wine. Maybe this is the better.

Anyway, I want keep that version. So, another question:
How to keep a package and not to update when system update needs?

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With the disclaimer that partial updates are not supported — you have hereby officially been warned and we wash our hands in innocence — you can exclude a package or package group from updates by adding it to the pertinent section in /etc/pacman.conf. :point_down:

# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg   =
#IgnoreGroup =

Of course, you’ll need to uncomment those entries when used. See the man page for details. :point_down:

man pacman.conf
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Thanks @Aragorn . You have the half point of the solution.

Anybody else for the other half?

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With regard to the downgrading, you can try using manjaro-downgrade if you have that installed. If not,… :point_down:

sudo pacman -Syu manjaro-downgrade

… and then the command to use would be downgrade, but see the man page… :point_down:

man downgrade
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Thanks man. I am going to read that.
Result:

No manual entry for downgrade

I hope after the downloading of donwgrade package, have more luck.

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You will get the man page once you install manjaro-downgrade.

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Absolutely right!
Moreover, i did the downgrade.
Thanks.

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An alternative suggestion for future readers: use bottles. It allows to use many different wine versions and switching between them with a click. It is in AUR (unsupported) or flatpak.

bottle

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Thanks.

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