Re: How to revert to wine 1.5.4 on Ubuntu 12.04 using Synaptic?

(Couldn't do it using synaptic, but found some help in backing it out on the appdb page for WoW: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=24878)

sudo apt-get remove wine1.5 && sudo dpkg -i `find /var/cache/apt/archives/ | grep "wine" | grep "1.5.4"`

This command worked for me.  Would still appreciate an answer to my original question, if there's someone with more knowledge of Synaptic who can help out.