On 01/28/2012 10:35 AM, P NIKOLIC wrote:
Well it seems no help then it seems parts are working parts are not so how
do i set about uninstalling KDE 4.8 and reverting to the previous working
version or is 4.8 the new viersion now if so it has problems
Pete .
--- On Sat, 28/1/12, P NIKOLIC<p.nikol...@btinternet.com> wrote:
From: P NIKOLIC<p.nikol...@btinternet.com>
Subject: [arch-general] Another Major glitch now
To: arch-general@archlinux.org
Date: Saturday, 28 January, 2012, 15:43
I have just updated the system now on kde4.8 but all i get is kmix and a white
screen noting else works at all even that took 12 mins to come up
(ps the update was a normal pacman -Suy )
Pete (sent from webamil on the lappy cus main machine is futzed )
Pete,
Also, your package cache is in /var/cache/pacman/pkg. Unless you have done
something to remove them, then all your 4.7.4 packages are still there. You
can simply do an 'ls -al /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*4.7.4*' to confirm. You can
downgrade using 'pacman -U' <file list of 4.7.4 packages>
I wrote a couple of scripts to handle cleaning /var/cache/pacman/pkg and
moving old versions off the / partition to the /home partition to keep the
space on / free and to keep exact copies of my prior working packages.
Currently the previous versions of packages are moved to /home/backup/pkg-1
(then pkg-2 and finally pkg-del)
Grab the scripts at:
http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/arch/scripts/fduparch.sh
http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/arch/scripts/fduppkg
Just put both in /usr/local/bin and call fduparch.sh as root. The scripts
are reasonably commented. fduparch.sh is the wrapper script that just calls
fduppkg successively to move old versions of packages to the directories
specified in the array 'DIRLIST'.
After each 'pacman -Syu', I just call 'fduparch.sh'. Just run 'fduparch.sh
-h' to get a better description. HTH.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
