Re: Removing a locally-installed .deb
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 15:50, David Z Maze wrote:
> 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.
add --force-downgrade to that and you should be happy.
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Scott Henson <debian-list@silvercoin.dyndns.org>
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