[Users] How to add RSSyl plugin to 3.8.0?

[Cliff Laine]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 15:17:56 +0000
Paul <claws at thewildbeast.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 15:10:43 +0000
> Cliff Laine <clifflaine at europe.com> wrote: 
> 
> > I've forced version 3.8.0 from Synaptic because of the difficulties
> > with the RSS plugin on 3.11.1.
> 
> Woah! That's a bad idea, whatever the reason.

I'm sure 3.8.0 wasn't *that* bad :)

> 
> > However, I can't seem to be able to add the RSS plugin to the older
> > version, since Synaptic wants me to upgrade all the time to 3.11.1.
> > Is there a way round this? Can I add the plugin manually at all?
> 
> Force the downgrade of the plugin in the same way you forced the
> downgrade of Claws Mail. Don't use synaptic, use apt-get or dpkg
> instead.
> 

Thanks -- so would I do something like sudo apt-get
claws-mail-feeds-reader ? How would I tell it that I want 3.8.0?

Cliff