Apt-get rollback version not found

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I need to rollback some packages. I have a list of all the packages I need to rollback and the versions I need. All the versions I need are sitting in /var/cache/apt/archives yet apt ignored them telling me that it couldn't find the version I asked for. How can I get apt to see the older versions? I did try using dpkg-scanpackages but it seems to ignore the older ones favoring the newer ones. The command I used is apt-get -s install $(cat rollback.txt | tr '\n' ' '). rollback.txt contains all of the packages I wish to downgrade in the correct apt format. rollback.txt. The errors are linked here: errors.log. I'm basically looking to downgrade of everything from today. I'll then go through and do an upgrade that won't brick my system.

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Not sure if this is helpful, but i've used it with success:

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Yeah that won't work. I don't need to uninstall anything I need to install older versions. I know it's possible and I've done it before but apt seems to be angry this time or something.

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You could also grab the old deb packages and install 'em with:

sudo dpkg -i packagename

Also note this answer:

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But back to the root problem... (See the infamous XY-Problem: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem). Why downgrade, what's not working?

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I upgraded and it broke the AMDGPU-PRO drivers that I'm running. As a result X11 doesn't work at all and while I could use the mesa AMDGPU it doesn't perform as well as the pro version in games. I want to rollback so I can continue using the pro drivers.

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yeah the problem with that is doing that tells me apt can't find the version specified even though I have all the .deb packages for the versions I'm specifying. As far as just using dpkg -i I could try but I feel like that will make a mess.

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X11 log?

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Xorg.0.log Look at the module loading specifically. You'll notice all the amdgpu-pro modules fail due to incorrect ABI versions.

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Alright I got my issue fixed. I ended up running dpkg-scanpackages -m . /dev/null | gzip > Packages.gz from inside of /var/cache/apt/archives and then adding deb file:/var/cache/apt/archives ./ to /etc/apt/sources.list then after doing apt-get update I was able to downgrade the packages and rollback the upgrade. Then I did apt-mark hold xserver-xorg* to put a hold on everything related to X.org and then lastly an apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade all the other packages and everything works great.