Re: downgrading to potato

[Alessandro Ghigi <ghigi@math.mit.edu>]

The same happens to me. Changing the entries in /etc/apt/sources.list does leaves dselect (or apt-get) happy with the woody distribution.

Any other ideas?

Thanks 

Alessandro



Stephan Engelke wrote
>  

>  Reactivating the potato entries in /etc/apt/sources.list and deleting
>  the woody ones did not help.  apt tells me that my system is up to
>  date ;-)
>  


D. Ghost wrote

> You just change your sources in /etc/apt/sources.list to potato stable:
> 
> deb ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main contrib non-free 
> deb-src ftp://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main 
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main
> deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main
> 
> and do the apt-get dist upgrade (which should downgrade you)
> 
> I think this is what I did when I went back from woody to potato for the
> same reasons.
> 
> I still have some trouble with woody stuff that is still on the PC (perl
> too new) etc.
>