Re: best way to run stable or testing program on ustable system
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:48, Grzesiek Sedek wrote:
> On 2 Jun 2003, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:05, Grzesiek Sedek wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I run my system as unstable, but in certain situations (i.e. recent
> > > Evolution Segfault oo Mozilla problem) I'd like downgrade certain
> > > programs back to testing or stable - until the problem is resolved. I know
> > > that it is possible so could anyone point me to a document about it or
> > > show me their way to do it?
> >
> > I select the version I want in the aptitude UI or use
> >
> > aptitude install package/release
> >
> do I have to have any references to stable or testing in my apt-sources?
Yes, otherwise apt doesn't know about them.
> another question on the side is there any problem with aptitude at the
> moment?
> It apears to be broken on my:
>
> aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.2 but it is not installable
> Depends: libsigc++0 but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages
See http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=aptitude&arch=powerpc
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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