On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:00:35 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > >>> Can anyone guide me on this, or is this the kind of thing I should >>> install a vm guest for? >> >> Synaptic makes a good job when it comes to manage the versions of the >> packages you want to install. You select the desired package you want >> to downgrade and jump to the "Versions" tab for instructions. > > I must not have the screens you do. Starting synaptic and finding > `xserver-xorg-core' > > For a moment there I was a bit stymied since there appears to be no > `versions tab'.. but finally figured out I needed to press `properties' > first.
Sorry, I must have tweaked the layout the first time I installed Debian and left that way. Did not remember it was not the default setting. > But the only version shown is 2:1.11.1-1 So you have no previous package version installed? > Somebody posted what that notation means earlier but not finding the > info now... what does the `2' indicate? Debian Policy Manual explains better: 5.6.12 Version http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version >>> Is there a page that just has 1 massive list? >> >> See above. Not a "just-one-massive" list though, but a "per package" >> version comparison. > > Thanks for the excellent help and URLs. > > xserver-xorg 1:7.6+9 > xwerver-xorg-core 2:1.11 > > I think it is the `core' pkg that is referred to on the xorg list when > the speak of the Xorg version. > > aptitude show xserver-xorg says: > > This package depends on the full suite of the server and drivers for > the X.Org X server. It does not provide the actual server itself. > > Why so confusing... the name is xserver-xorg and yet it is not the > server? Xorg (upstream project) latest stable version is 7.6 (this one matches with the "xserver-xorg" package). But that's all I can tell for these two packages, I don't know why there exits both given that xorg server binaries are only provided by "xserver-xorg-core". > Oh, and what does `stable-bpo' mean at: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xorg-server.html "-bpo" tag indicates a package is from the "backports" repositories: http://backports-master.debian.org/ Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.10.16.17.20...@gmail.com