On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:50:50PM -0500, John Patton wrote: > Is there a way to force apt-get to install downgraded > packages? One or two packages are no problem... using dpkg > works just fine with them. But how could you downgrade > your system from testing to stable, for example? Is it > even possible? AFAIK, apt wont even download packages if > it thinks that they are older than what's registered. If I > could at least get it to do that, then I could have dpkg > install them over the newer versions.
The apt in potato won't do this, but the apt in woody can be coaxed into it. Rob -- Are you still an ALCOHOLIC?