downgrading a package

2006-04-06 Thread Adam Hardy
I'm using etch / testing and I did some upgrades (to try to get the hotsynch for my handheld working) but things went badly wrong. Now I'm trying to owngrade udev to 0.79 from 0.8xx but I can't get synaptic to allow me to force the version I need. The menu option is just greyed out. How can

Re: downgrading a package

2006-04-06 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 12:48:08AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: I'm using etch / testing and I did some upgrades (to try to get the hotsynch for my handheld working) but things went badly wrong. Now I'm trying to owngrade udev to 0.79 from 0.8xx but I can't get synaptic to allow me to force

Re: Downgrading a package that is causing some problems in KDE

2005-08-23 Thread Bill Marcum
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:18:07PM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: First of all, how can I find out what version of a package is installed on my system without going through synaptic or dselect, because sometimes I don't have access to an X session and the version number would be too long to

Re: [SOLVED] Downgrading a package that is causing some problems in KDE

2005-08-23 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- Bill Marcum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 12:18:07PM -0700, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: First of all, how can I find out what version of a package is installed on my system without going through synaptic or dselect, because sometimes I don't have access to an X

Downgrading a package that is causing some problems in KDE

2005-08-22 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
Hi all, I performed an upgrade yesterday to my SID system. I know these are tough times with the migration to gcc 4.0 and everything, and that I should have been more careful, but I messed up. I am still not sure where. Now (after a reboot), when I am in KDE, nothing appears on the panel menu

Re: Downgrading a package that is causing some problems in KDE

2005-08-22 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- Ibrahim Mubarak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I performed an upgrade yesterday to my SID system. I know these are tough times with the migration to gcc 4.0 and everything, and that I should have been more careful, but I messed up. I am still not sure where. Now (after a reboot),

Re: Downgrading a package that is causing some problems in KDE

2005-08-22 Thread Kent West
Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: --- Ibrahim Mubarak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I performed an upgrade yesterday to my SID system. I know these are tough times with the migration to gcc 4.0 and everything, and that I should have been more careful, but I messed up. I am still not sure where. Now (after a

Re: Downgrading a package that is causing some problems in KDE

2005-08-22 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:36:33PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: --- Ibrahim Mubarak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I performed an upgrade yesterday to my SID system. I know these are tough times with the migration to gcc 4.0 and everything, and that I should have been more

Re: Downgrading a package that is causing some problems in KDE

2005-08-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
--- Ibrahim Mubarak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, how can I find out what version of a package is installed on my system without going through synaptic or dselect, [...] Have a look at the manpage of the 'apt-cache' command, especially the 'policy' part: $ apt-cache policy

Re: downgrading a package

2002-05-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 13:30, Andrew Perrin wrote: Any clues on where to find the old package? It's not on the sane page or the debian page. Try /var/cache/apt/archives/ failing that, maybe someone here on the list has an old deb laying around. And if

downgrading a package

2002-05-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
I've become pretty much convinced that the bug I reported yesterday in sane-backends is an upstream bug, so I'm therefore waiting for a fix. In the meantime, though, I need to use the scanner! What's the simplest way for me to back out of the upgrade and revert to the previous version of a

Re: downgrading a package

2002-05-16 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 09:10, Andrew Perrin wrote: I've become pretty much convinced that the bug I reported yesterday in sane-backends is an upstream bug, so I'm therefore waiting for a fix. In the meantime, though, I need to use the scanner! What's the simplest way for me to back out of the

Re: downgrading a package

2002-05-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
Any clues on where to find the old package? It's not on the sane page or the debian page. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: downgrading a package

2002-05-16 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 13:30, Andrew Perrin wrote: Any clues on where to find the old package? It's not on the sane page or the debian page. Try /var/cache/apt/archives/ failing that, maybe someone here on the list has an old deb laying around. And if you cant do that, your gonna have to

Re: downgrading a package

2002-05-16 Thread Scott Henson
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 13:30, Andrew Perrin wrote: Any clues on where to find the old package? It's not on the sane page or the debian page. I forgot this on my last message. You could also skip the pining and just download the deb from woody manually and do a dpkg --force-downgrade on that.