Please Help! Downgrading?

1997-06-11 Thread Ben Gertzfield
A friend of mine recently pointed dselect at unstable, instead of stable,
when frozen disappeared. Thus, nothing works anymore on his system.

Is there any way, short of a complete re-install, that he can go
easily back to 1.3? He's really upset with Debian right now, and
will go back to Slackware if there's no way, mostly because there
are no CDs with Debian that work.

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Re: Please Help! Downgrading?

1997-06-11 Thread joost witteveen
 A friend of mine recently pointed dselect at unstable, instead of stable,
 when frozen disappeared. Thus, nothing works anymore on his system.
 
 Is there any way, short of a complete re-install, that he can go
 easily back to 1.3? He's really upset with Debian right now, and
 will go back to Slackware if there's no way, mostly because there
 are no CDs with Debian that work.

Well, I'm running unstable too, without problems. So Thus, nothing works
sounds a bit strange to me. We'd be interested to know what doesn't
work, and why!

But, to help your friend, you might do something like

dpkg -i --selected-only --recursive $frozen-mirror

with $frozen-mirror the place where you mirror (or mounted) a image
of frozen. (I never tested this, only learned it from dpkg -h).

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