Re: Removing a locally-installed .deb
Thanks - that did it. I had to do the following:
dpkg --force-depends -r libdb-compat
dpkg -i ./libc6_2.2.5-11.2_i386.deb ./libncurses5_5.2.20020112a-7_i386.deb
ap
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, 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.
>
> --
> David Maze dmaze@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
> "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal."
> -- Abra Mitchell
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
>
Reply to: