-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:40, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:22:57AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:16, Carl Fink wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > > > > A few weeks ago (I don't know about now), the KDE distribution in > > > > unstable simply would not run ... > > > > > > > > How does one recover from something like this short of doing a > > > > reload? > > > > > > Don't run KDE for a week or so until it's fixed? Downgrade to the > > > version in Testing, which will still work? > > > > > > I mean, you DO know how to do both of those things from the command > > > line, right? And how to get to the command line when X won't work? > > > Otherwise, really, you shouldn't use Unstable. > > > > Certainly I can turn off KDE; cripples KDevelop which is needed, but can > > be done easily. As to downgrading, I've read answers to several questions > > saying that can't be done with apt. Unless those answers were wrong, no, > > I don't know how to - short of a reload. > > You can downgrade with apt, that's no problem at all! What you _can't_ > do, is downgrading _all_ packages to the version numbers available in > testing. If you downgrade, you have to specify things like
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