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Re: Going back to stable



On Saturday, 15.07.2006 at 01:00 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

> H S Rai wrote:
> > What is the way to go back to stable version, if mess has been created
> > using apt-get for unstable and experimental vesrsion?
> > 
> 
> That is not exactly supported.  Especially since there are *huge*
> differences between stable and unstable.  Gnome has been upgraded twice,
> XFree86 was replaced by X.org.  Those two alone would be enough to scare
> me off.  Your best bet is to reinstall.  If you kept /home on a
> sepearate partition from the beginning, this should be relatively
> trivial to accomplish without losing many settings.

I'd second this advice.  Re-install, don't even *try* to downgrade...

Dave.
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