On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:11:35PM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:40, David Fokkema wrote: > > 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 > > Ah ... important information here! Thanks much >
BTW if all else fails and you need to go farther back then you can always load the packages with whatever version you want manually from http://snapshot.debian.net/ and install it using dpkg -i <package> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFA1cVHjeziQOokQnARAisgAJ4yaBHo4wDKW6WOH4iWuuLlazkF+wCeIofN > IaQb/4bhz2WCqrGCIICB8Vs= > =FaSe > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
