Re: how do i go back to stable? [was: reverting to 'standard' etch installation]

2007-11-03 Thread Winston Smith
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:53:52PM +, michael wrote: > I can give that a try but anybody else have any suggestions? (I've > removed some packages I'd installed under sid so now it's probably > not as clean/obvious as above suggests)... > > I guess I could remove lots of things and then se

Re: reverting to 'standard' etch installation

2007-11-02 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
michael wrote: Folks, I made a cuckoo (mess up) - I had installed Etch from netinst and done the upgrades. That was a while ago. Last night I decided I wanted gnomad2 from unstable so amended my /etc/apt/sources.list and installed it (along with other dependencies, particularly I remember OO be

Re: reverting to 'standard' etch installation

2007-11-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:25:13AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > You could also press Enter to open the package description. At the > > bottom you can see all available versions. If all you have in > > Or 'v' gives you the versions without the description (in case you don't > know). 'q' tak

Re: how do i go back to stable? [was: reverting to 'standard' etch installation]

2007-11-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:53:52PM +, michael wrote: > I can give that a try but anybody else have any suggestions? (I've > removed some packages I'd installed under sid so now it's probably > not as clean/obvious as above suggests)... Yes, but beware changes to /etc that may not be back

Re: reverting to 'standard' etch installation

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 06:02:44AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:11:00AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > 5. > > Now, anything else in the list are packages from stable that got > > upgraded to unstable as part of installing gnomad2 (things that > >

Re: reverting to 'standard' etch installation

2007-11-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:11:00AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > 5. > Now, anything else in the list are packages from stable that got > upgraded to unstable as part of installing gnomad2 (things that > gnomad2 required at a higher version than things in stable). >

how do i go back to stable? [was: reverting to 'standard' etch installation]

2007-11-01 Thread michael
On 31 Oct 2007, at 14:11, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:26:04AM +, michael wrote: Folks, I made a cuckoo (mess up) - I had installed Etch from netinst and done the upgrades. That was a while ago. Last night I decided I wanted gnomad2 from unstable so amended my /etc/ap

Re: reverting to 'standard' etch installation

2007-10-31 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:26:04AM +, michael wrote: > Folks, I made a cuckoo (mess up) - I had installed Etch from netinst > and done the upgrades. That was a while ago. Last night I decided I > wanted gnomad2 from unstable so amended my /etc/apt/sources.list and > installed it (along wi

reverting to 'standard' etch installation

2007-10-31 Thread michael
Folks, I made a cuckoo (mess up) - I had installed Etch from netinst and done the upgrades. That was a while ago. Last night I decided I wanted gnomad2 from unstable so amended my /etc/apt/sources.list and installed it (along with other dependencies, particularly I remember OO being removed