On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:10:38PM -0800 wrote
Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Does the get/set-selections procedure work with apt-get, or does apt do its
> own thing? I.e.:
I had indeed configured dselect to use apt - I just ran dselect to make sure
that some (for me) vital packages wer
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 06:36:33PM +0100, Stephan Engelke wrote:
...
> the seleciton list back in to dpkg (dpkg --set-selections), but if you
> want the system to be identical to the one you had before, running
> dpkg --set-selections and initialing the install process (e.g. by running
> dselect
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 11:48:58AM -0500 wrote
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> YES, writing up a quickie install method would be greatly appreciated.
> HOW about a quickie on installing from source, like CDROM #4 of the
> 6 CD Debian package. It is supposed to contain all the source for binary
> disc #1.
In a message dated 12/21/00 10:47:18 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:33:54PM +0100, Stephan Engelke wrote:
> Johann Spies writes:
>
> > Replace your libc6 package with the potato version using dpkg -i with
> > the --force-depends option.
>
> Unfortunately th
For me it was even worse. I half-installed libc6 in the old version, then
opened dselect, and tried to remove libdb2 (something probably extremely
silly). Now libc is broken, along with dpkg rm, mv, ls, and probably
another lot of basic stuff. What is wrong for dpkg to work, is that it
does not fi
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:33:54PM +0100, Stephan Engelke wrote:
> Johann Spies writes:
>
> > Replace your libc6 package with the potato version using dpkg -i with
> > the --force-depends option.
>
> Unfortunately this did not work; I could not get around the
> dependencies on glibc 2.2.
>
> To
Johann Spies writes:
> Replace your libc6 package with the potato version using dpkg -i with
> the --force-depends option.
Unfortunately this did not work; I could not get around the
dependencies on glibc 2.2.
To shorten a long story, I have done a reinstall, and got the system
up to working co
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:53:57PM +0100, Stephan Engelke wrote:
You can try the following:
Replace your libc6 package with the potato version using dpkg -i with
the --force-depends option.
Then do
apt-get -f install
with your apt-get sources pointing to potato.
I did this on a mixed pota
Hi everyone,
this question has been asked before, but I could not get any working
results. After installing Woody a couple of days ago, I'd like to
downgrade to Potato again. Is there a way to do this without
reinstalling the system?
Reactivating the potato entries in /etc/apt/sources.list an
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