NOTE: the instructions below also work on distributions derived from Arch Linux (e.g. EndeavourOS)

How to pin a package

• Edit /etc/pacman.conf

• Add a IgnorePkg directive. Example:

IgnorePkg = hyprland

This will freeze the package “hyprland” on the current version and will stop it from updating.

How to downgrade a package

If there is a cached version on your machine, you can get it from there. Example:

ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg/hyprland*
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/hyprland-0.39.pkg.tar.zst

If it is not on your machine, you can try to search for it on the Arch Linux Archive.

You can try to find it by:

• package name.

• repository snapshots' date

Then, after downloading the .zst file you can install it as stated above:

sudo pacman -U ~/Downloads/hyprland-0.39.pkg.tar.zst