Re: Downgrade to Stable

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 10:23:08AM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi all...
> 
> A few days ago I downgraded my Debian installation from Sid to Stable by
> changing, in /etc/apt/sources list, all occurrences of `unstable' to `stable'
> in:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
> deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
> 
> # non-free
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> and then doing
> 
> # aptitude update
> # aptitude install dpkg apt aptitude
> # aptitude full-upgrade
> 
> But still, at log in in tty console, there is:
> 
> Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid lennovo tty1
> 
> How come?

This is not supported. Upgrades work in one direction.

However, if you want to try:

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/downgrade.html

-dsr-