Pollywog wrote: > > On 19-Jul-99 Kent West wrote: > > I figure if I can reinstall the WINE from stable, the game may start > > working again, but apt-get won't downgrade, and as I mentioned, dpgk's > > man page warns of dire consequences. Can anyone give me a step-by-step > > to downgrade WINE? > > > > Thanks! > > What I have done in such cases is to use 'dpkg --purge <packagename>' > and then installed the older version, but that assumes that you have the old > packages. I would download them from the Debian ftp site and then install > them, after removing the unstable version with --purge. Before you do that, > copy a version of your wine.conf because you will need that. > > -- > Andrew
Thanks, that did it. For the record, backing up wine.conf as wine.conf.bak is not a good idea; apparently the purge deletes that file also. Also -- bummer. Apparently there was a version of WINE between stable and the current unstable. The stable version doesn't work, and the current unstable doesn't either. So now it's off to see if I can find the version (981018) that does work. Again, thanks!
