On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > I'm not sure whether this will work. The system is currently a libc5 > "bo" system. I want it to become a "slink" system. I can't just use > dpkg to install the potato version of apt, because it's a libc6 > version. I would need to install potato-apt using apt. In the > process apt would presumably upgrade the system (correctly) to libc6. > But it would be a "potato" upgrade. How would I then downgrade back > to slink? --- my ultimate goal.
Yes, it is more difficult, you'd have to do it in stages :| Install libc6 and libstdc++2.9 using the apt you have now then install the potato apt by hand. Jason
