You should change your sources.list and use file:// instead of ftp or http to install from a local file, however I think the directory structure won't be good AND ther won't be any packages.gz, furthermore you should find some kind of force-downgrade options in apt-get. I think you should use dpkg to downgrade in this case.
By the way, what do you mean: messed up the system, what went wrong, perhaps it'll be easier to fix it! Ron Rademaker On Thu, 18 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I had installed slink 2.1, which I upgraded through a my moden > connection after a few days to frozen. I made a backup of the > /var/cache/apt/archives folder in to another partition. After that I > messed up my system, so I had to reinstall 2.1 again. How can I apt-get > upgrade my system to the previous frozen status by using the backed > archive? The problem I see is that apt-get will have troubble > determining the dependencies, without a package.gz file, and there > wasn't any in the archive. Please help. I would hate to go through the > whole downloading thing again. If I fetch the packages.gz file existing > now in frozen, it will probably be different enough to be a problem. > Please give me some ideas for now and for future problems of the same > kind. > (Thanx)(10^6) > Antonio. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
