Re: [HOWTO] Downgrade from 4.0.1-0 to 3.3.6

2000-10-22 Thread Will Lowe
> 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)

Re: [HOWTO] Downgrade from 4.0.1-0 to 3.3.6

2000-10-22 Thread Branden Robinson
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 y

Re: [HOWTO] Downgrade from 4.0.1-0 to 3.3.6

2000-10-22 Thread Will Lowe
> 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

Re: [HOWTO] Downgrade from 4.0.1-0 to 3.3.6

2000-10-22 Thread Branden Robinson
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

[HOWTO] Downgrade from 4.0.1-0 to 3.3.6

2000-10-22 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
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. dpkg --list | grep '4.0.1-0' | awk '{print $2;}' | xargs --remove --force-depends --auto-deconfigure edit

[HOWTO] Downgrade from 4.0.1-0 to 3.3.6

2000-10-22 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
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. dpkg --list | grep '4.0.1-0' | awk '{print $2;}' | xargs --remove --force-depends --auto-deconfigure edi