Frisurf said: > A question for a friend of mine: is it possible to downgrade libc6. he > upgraded libc6 on his stable machine using the unstable's version. He > encountered some problems trying to downgrade (installing the former > .deb). A conflict with libdb1-compat . > > I read in an old forum (August 2001) that downgrading libc6 is not > supported. Is that true?
if libc6 is the ONLY thing he installed it may be possible to force downgrade. one of my friends installed the unstable of libc6 version on a potato system about 8 months ago because he thought he could do this to run the new mailman. of course many things broke. I was able to manually download and install the potato version of libc6 on his system with dpkg -i --force-depends --force-overwrite(i think thats it) and the system didn't flinch, no problems after that until the 2 disks failed 3-4 months later. I would backup any data you really want if possible before attempting this, technically I don't think its supported, but it is possible at least in my experience. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
