Hi all, ARM - great! Unfortunately the oldest snapshot is 31 August which is still 3.8 not 3.6 (should have thought of that before meticulously upgrading my 3.4 machine to...3.8 :P) So - Fedora it is! And I'll be careful to take an Arch snapshot whenever gnome-shell updates :) (i prefer arch)
cheers, Amy On 26 October 2013 16:44, Alessandro Crismani <alessandro.crism...@ieee.org>wrote: > > Il 26/ott/2013 02:14 "Amy" <mathematical.cof...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > Well, downgrading my 3.8 VM to 3.6 didn't work (downgrading the > `gnome-shell` package suspiciously only downgraded that package and nothing > else; I had hoped it would hunt down all the dependencies and downgrade > them appropriately too, but it didn't); now when I boot I get various > errors about missing libraries to do with 3.4. Not too surprising. > > > > Also, since Arch does rolling releases it appears I can't tell pacman to > upgrade the gnome-shell package by just one or two steps instead of the > whole way. > > > > Clemens.......because that would make way too much sense, obviously. > (d'oh!) I prefer Arch and I notice they still have a snapshot from a few > months ago available (3.10 shouldn't have been on it yet), so I can try > that (though since gnome-shell does not ship with Arch I suspect I will get > the same problem that when I install it, it will update it to 3.10 > automatically). Failing that, I'll just grab Fedora or Mageia. > > > > thanks all, > > Amy > > > > As people pointed out, you may have luck using the arch roll back machine. > > Start from your 3.4 version, edit /etc/pacman.conf and add a line to point > to the day you want to upgrade to, see wiki for this. Then pacman -Syu > should do the magic. > > Ale >
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