On 13-Jan-2000 Darxus wrote: > > They don't keep old versions around. If you install your packages via > apt-get, it leaves the installed packages in /var/cache/apt/archives. > Check there first. There's a command "apt-get autoclean" that deletes > everything but the most recent copies of all packages. I always do that > before apt-get upgrading, and wait till I know new stuff is stable to > delete old packages. > > Think about it, if they just kept the current version, and the one before > it, it would double their storage requirements.
Before I installed the faulty wine packages, I made backups of the previous wine packages: cd /tmp dpkg-repack wine dpkg-repack libwine dpkg-repack libwine-dev When I realized the new wine package was broken, I just reinstalled from the backups. I like the idea about 'apt-get autoclean' and will try that next time. -- Andrew
