According to this site: http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html Apt pinning allows you to access the latest updates without compromising the stability of your system. When it is enabled, you can have lynx installed but can access Meerkat's latest updates but this will only apply to applications(non critical updates) only. So if [email protected] 's module is a driver module, this may serve him best. However, ubuntu recommends backports rather than apt-pinning: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zak B. Elep" <[email protected]> To: "Mailing List para sa Ubuntu Pilipinas (Philippines)" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 8:21:25 PM Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-PH] Downgrading from Meerkat to Lynx It is actually possible, Google for "apt pinning". Of course, dragons lay in wait. That's why most just tend to restart from scratch. On Oct 17, 2010 5:24 PM, "JC John Sese Cuneta" < [email protected] > wrote: > I think it is not possible to downgrade as much as we can not downgrade from > Windows 7 to Windows Vista. OSes are one path only… upgrade. Newer > versions changes a lot of things (and deletes a lot too) which makes the > downgrade path very messy so no one is creating a downgrade option. (That's > how I understand the logic behind it.) > > > > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 4:29 PM, [C]hicken [G] od < > [email protected] > wrote: > >> I wiped my whole drive and reinstalled Lynx since Meerkat could not load a >> module properly. If I ever need to upgrade back to Meerkat but wish to go >> back to Lynx, is there a way to go back without reinstalling the whole thing >> again? >> >> -- >> [C] hicken [G] od >> -=>Hi Tek, Lo Life<=- >> http://planet-zero.blogspot.com >> >> -- >> ubuntu-ph mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ph >> >> -- ubuntu-ph mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ph
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