On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:16, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > > A few weeks ago (I don't know about now), the KDE distribution in > > > unstable simply would not run ... > > > > > > How does one recover from something like this short of doing a reload? > > > > Don't run KDE for a week or so until it's fixed? Downgrade to the > > version in Testing, which will still work? > > > > I mean, you DO know how to do both of those things from the command > > line, right? And how to get to the command line when X won't work? > > Otherwise, really, you shouldn't use Unstable. > > Certainly I can turn off KDE; cripples KDevelop which is needed, but can be > done easily. As to downgrading, I've read answers to several questions saying > that can't be done with apt. Unless those answers were wrong, no, I don't > know how to - short of a reload.
You can downgrade with apt, that's no problem at all! What you _can't_ do, is downgrading _all_ packages to the version numbers available in testing. If you downgrade, you have to specify things like apt-get install gs=7.07-1 Doing that for hundreds of packages is no fun. > I'll take this for one vote that testing is actually a better choice than > unstable. Not one vote. Maybe one argument in favour. David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
