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Re: serious problem upgrading sox



On Friday 29 January 2010 13:47:14 Bernard wrote:
> So, I removed it and tried to re-install the old version after removing
> the testing addresses in my /etc/apt/sources.list and updating. But this
> backstep appear impossible to achieve...

Downgrading package is not supported.  There's a very simple explanation:  
While we can modify future packages to take into account features of old 
packages, we can't modify old packages to take into account features of future 
packages.

> The error messages, that are in
> French, can be summarized as follows : some packages cannot be
> installed. The following packages contain unsatisfied dependencies. sox:
> Depend: libsox0 but will not be installed
> E: Defective packages

You'll have to get libsox0 installed before Lenny's sox will work.

> If I now try to call 'sox -h', I get this :
> root@new-host:/home/bd# sox -h
> sox: Symbol `sox_effect_fns' has different size in shared object,
> consider re-linking
> sox: Symbol `sox_format_fns' has different size in shared object,
> consider re-linking
> Segmentation error.

All these errors are because of the library mismatch.
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