Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question
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On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:40, David Fokkema wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
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> > 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
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