Re: Removing a locally-installed .deb
Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu> writes:
> I (foolishly) upgraded libc6 and libncurses5 by downloading the unstable
> deb's and then doing a dpkg -i ./<foo>.deb. I'd like to re-downgrade to
> the distribution default. Is there a way to handle that moderately
> gracefully?
If you download the versions from stable and run 'dpkg -i' again,
it'll probably work. But if you've installed other programs from
unstable that depend on the newer libc6, you're probably just doomed.
The error messages out of dpkg will probably tell you what other
things you'd need to downgrade. 'apt-get install --reinstall' might
help you too, though it might need to be coaxed into downgrading.
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