Re: best way to run stable or testing program on ustable system (fwd)
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:13:25PM +0200, Grzesiek Sedek wrote:
> I run my system as unstable, but in certain situations (i.e. recent
> Evolution Segfault or Mozilla problem on ppc) 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?
If you're using unstable, don't use stable, use testing.
Easiest way to use an older version is to have both testing and
unstable in your sources.list, and use aptitude to hold the older
version of the package by highlighting the older version and hitting =.
- --
.''`. Baloo Ursidae <baloo@ursine.ca>
: :' : proud Debian admin and user
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`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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