On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 05:08:23PM +0200, Jaume Teixi wrote: > It's right if I download potato versions (the ones I want) of libc6, > lbnss-db, libc6-dev, locales > then apt-get remove --purge of unstable versions (the ones I don't want)
Don't do this step unless you have a statically linked version of dpkg (which you probably don't). Without libc6, dpkg won't run. > dpkg -i each_potato_pkg.deb Just do this, dpkg will downgrade for you. (i.e. "--force-downgrade" is implicit). Hope this helps, Chris -- IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.