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Re: Downgrading a system to a particular distribution




"Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU> wrote in message [🔎] 433AA43F.3000600@princeton.edu">news:[🔎] 433AA43F.3000600@princeton.edu...
Alf wrote:

Now my system is no very stable, and some applications crash now and
then. Because of this, i'd like to return to a more stable state. Is
there a way to uninstall all packages from unstable branch? I'd like to
get my system back to testing, say, or stable.

Downgrading in general isn't supported by Debian.
Although if none of his installed non-sarge apps are 'essential', he should be able to just purge the packages from etc/sid, and then install them again from sarge. By guess is that his system got hit by the C++ transition, which would be a nightmare to downgrade from.



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