[solved] Re: How to replace a bugged version of a package?

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

On Ma, 22 iun 10, 17:08:30, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> Here:
>> 
>>  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431388
>> 
>> it is reported a bug in Lenny's gopchop package.  On my system I have the
>> bugged version already installed.  How can I replace it with a new debugged
>> version?


Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:

> If you don't care for the newer version from testing I would suggest 
> downloading the binary version 1.1.7-8 from snapshot.debian.org and 
> install it with 'dpkg -i'. Of course, this assumes there are no 
> dependency problems (I didn't check).


"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> writes:

> I generally don't recommend going outside the repository system, but for this
> particular case, it may be easiest to just grab the .deb from the snapshot
> service and install with dpkg.



I did as you suggested: I installed via `dpkg -i' the version 1.1.7-8,
downloaded from snapshot.debian.org, and it seems all right.

Thanks to all who replied
Rodolfo