Re: Fwd: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some comments
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:25:39PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> You upgraded to _sid_? Not too wise for a newbie. You may
> encounter serious non-newbie-fixable problems. Unfortunately
> there's no 'downgrade' command, so if you've already put some
Well, actually you can, and I've done it on occasion. But
you're correct in what you intended here: it's not really
a newbie procedure to go fiddling with apt preferences and
sources.list and manual apt-get commands. Not to mention
the 'lint' you have to pick up for weeks afterwards :-)
> time in getting what you want, good luck. Otherwise maybe
> you should consider re-installing woody, and if you upgrade
> just upgrade to sarge (testing), not sid.
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