On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 09:12:18AM -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > > You will most likely need to remove the testing versions of these packages > > (apache2, git and so on) and then install the bookworm versions afterward. > > Those dependent packages (most if not all) are not from testing. > apache2, perl, they are all installed from bookworm or > bookworm-security.
I am skeptical of this. > That db5.3 from testing is uninstalled and reinstalling from stable is > causing these other packages from stable to be uninstalled. I find > that confusing. Let's say that you're right. You actually *did* download and downgrade these packages (and just didn't show us the details for some reason), but the packaging system is unhappy about what you're telling it to do, and it gets overly aggressive and wants to remove some things that you feel could remain in place. You could just *let it remove them*, and then reinstall them. If you've already downloaded and downgraded them to bookworm versions, then you probably still have the .deb files, so it wouldn't even require another download. > But what about libc6? That one really worries me. As it should! > # apt remove -s libc6 DO NOT do this. Downgrade it. DO NOT remove it and then hope to reinstall it later. Removing libc6 will break everything. You seem to be flailing, so let me spell this out as explicitly as possible. When I say "downgrade a library package", I mean: 1) Download the .deb file for the bookworm(-security) version of the library package. 2) Run "dpkg -i libc6_whatever.deb". 3) When you inevitably get dependency conflicts, download the additional library packages that need to be downgraded at the same time, and add them to the list. 4) dpkg -i libc6_whatever.deb libwhomever.deb .... 5) Repeat until it works. 6) Helpful post-mess cleanup commands include "dpkg --configure -a" and "apt-get -f install". (Yes, that last one has install with no package names.) Apt is NOT built for downgrading. If you happen to get any positive results from an apt command that involves downgrading, you can consider that a pleasant surprise. Usually you need to invoke dpkg directly.
