On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:58:21 +1300 Chris Bannister <mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:05:32AM -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:09:28 +1300 > > Chris Bannister <mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz> wrote: > > libxaw7: > > Installed: 2:1.0.8-2 > > Candidate: 2:1.0.8-2 > > Version table: > > *** 2:1.0.8-2 0 > > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > 2:1.0.7-1 0 > > 500 http://debian.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/debian/ squeeze/main > > amd64 Packages > > Ahh, at some stage you have had a higher version installed. > > > #deb http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/ > > lenny main #deb-src > > http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/ lenny > > main > > > > deb http://debian.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/debian squeeze main contrib > > non-free deb-src http://debian.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/debian squeeze > > main contrib non-free > > > > # deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib > > # deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib > > You don't want security updates for squeeze? yeah - actually I do. oops. please don't root my boxen :-( > > > hmmmm.... I was running unstable before going to stable. I wonder > > if > > Downgrading isn't officially supported, but in saying that, there is > an option to pass to dpkg to *force* a downgrade. I would like to stay with stable, I'm just wondering if somehow I put it into an indeterminate state sometime during the transition. I had not updated the system in quite some time. > > > 2:1.0.8-2 was installed at that point. I thought I checked to see > > if libxaw7 was the correct package, but obviously it's not. > > Sorry, not sure what you mean here, but: > > apt-cache rdepends libxaw7 | less > a million ! > will show which packages depend on libxaw7 > > > I can't figure out how to delete the libxaw7 package without taking > > all of X with it. > > Try downgading libxaw7 by force. Hopefully, that should fix it. But > there is the possibility there may be other packages that need > downgrading as well. oooh. success. just used the =version format to downgrade. only had to beat up on three packages to make it work. fixed that security thing too :-) Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110321212712.62943...@windy.deldotd.com
