Re: [HOWTO] Downgrade from 4.0.1-0 to 3.3.6
> I'd appreciate knowing what problems you experienced, since Debian packages > are supposed to be downgradeable. I did almost the same thing on my laptop the other day, except that I --purged a fair number of the leaf nodes in the dependency tree (all of the xfont-* stuff, and a few other things) by hand before --force-depends'ing my way through it, and had absolutely no troubles at all. Will
Re: [HOWTO] Downgrade from 4.0.1-0 to 3.3.6
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 12:49:39AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > I tried to get XFree86 4.0.1 working on my laptop, but cannot. I > decided to just downgrade for now, so I can use it. Here's how I did > it, in case anyone else needs to do the similar. I'd appreciate knowing what problems you experienced, since Debian packages are supposed to be downgradeable. -- G. Branden Robinson | What influenced me to atheism was Debian GNU/Linux| reading the Bible cover to cover. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Twice. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- J. Michael Straczynski pgpTUwTppmzZu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [HOWTO] Downgrade from 4.0.1-0 to 3.3.6
> I'd appreciate knowing what problems you experienced, since Debian packages > are supposed to be downgradeable. I did almost the same thing on my laptop the other day, except that I --purged a fair number of the leaf nodes in the dependency tree (all of the xfont-* stuff, and a few other things) by hand before --force-depends'ing my way through it, and had absolutely no troubles at all. Will -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [HOWTO] Downgrade from 4.0.1-0 to 3.3.6
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 12:49:39AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > I tried to get XFree86 4.0.1 working on my laptop, but cannot. I > decided to just downgrade for now, so I can use it. Here's how I did > it, in case anyone else needs to do the similar. I'd appreciate knowing what problems you experienced, since Debian packages are supposed to be downgradeable. -- G. Branden Robinson | What influenced me to atheism was Debian GNU/Linux| reading the Bible cover to cover. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Twice. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- J. Michael Straczynski PGP signature
