Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:11:35PM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:40, David Fokkema wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > Hash: SHA1
> > >
> > > On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:16, Carl Fink wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> > > > > A few weeks ago (I don't know about now), the KDE distribution in
> > > > > unstable simply would not run ...
> > > > >
> > > > > How does one recover from something like this short of doing a
> > > > > reload?
> > > >
> > > > Don't run KDE for a week or so until it's fixed? Downgrade to the
> > > > version in Testing, which will still work?
> > > >
> > > > I mean, you DO know how to do both of those things from the command
> > > > line, right? And how to get to the command line when X won't work?
> > > > Otherwise, really, you shouldn't use Unstable.
> > >
> > > Certainly I can turn off KDE; cripples KDevelop which is needed, but can
> > > be done easily. As to downgrading, I've read answers to several questions
> > > saying that can't be done with apt. Unless those answers were wrong, no,
> > > I don't know how to - short of a reload.
> >
> > You can downgrade with apt, that's no problem at all! What you _can't_
> > do, is downgrading _all_ packages to the version numbers available in
> > testing. If you downgrade, you have to specify things like
>
> Ah ... important information here! Thanks much
>
BTW if all else fails and you need to go farther back then you can
always load the packages with whatever version you want manually from
http://snapshot.debian.net/ and install it using dpkg -i <package>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iD8DBQFA1cVHjeziQOokQnARAisgAJ4yaBHo4wDKW6WOH4iWuuLlazkF+wCeIofN
> IaQb/4bhz2WCqrGCIICB8Vs=
> =FaSe
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System
> at the Tel-Aviv University CC.
>
Reply to: