Reading the how-to on apt-get may provide some help. I think you need the apt package from sid to use the /etc/apt/preferences file described in Chapter 3 of http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/.
I have only read about this, so take it for what it's worth. -Kris -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Beaumont [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 5:38 PM To: Debian User List Subject: Returning system to vanilla Woody Is there any way to downgrade packages to those provided by the archives in /etc/apt/sources.list? The reason I'm asking is that I recently added Ximian Gnome to my sources.list and installed it on my Woody system, but it proving very unreliable. I suspect this may be because I upgraded a number of packages to those from Sid in order to install Evolution, and the Ximian packages are intended to upgrade Potato, so expecting this to work was maybe a bit much... in particular, I'm getting exactly the same crashes (every time I try to view an email) as I did with the Evolution from Sid. What I'd like to do is return my system to vanilla Woody then try adding Ximian Gnome back in...is this possible or would I have to resort to a clean install? -- Geoff Beaumont [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]