Re: serious problem upgrading sox

2010-01-29 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:53:19 +0100, Bernard wrote: > A 'find / | grep sox' showed me that . . . mlocate sox would be much much faster. Ref: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/373030/ > . . . I will later on make further attempts at > installing the newer version from testing/si

Ashamed was : Re: serious problem upgrading sox

2010-01-29 Thread Bernard
What a mess I have done with SoX ! I have solved my problem, at least the most urgent one, that is, getting back to my older stable version of sox v14.0.1. The reason why it behaved so strangely was that I had TWO sox in my system, the one I had attempted to install from sources, and the one I

Re: serious problem upgrading sox

2010-01-29 Thread Bernard
Bernard wrote: Bernard wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: You'll have to get libsox0 installed before Lenny's sox will work. I have just done this. The install went OK, so did the re-install of Lenny's sox. But, when trying to call 'sox -h' (or any call to sox), I get this : b...@new-

Re: serious problem upgrading sox

2010-01-29 Thread Bernard
Bernard wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: You'll have to get libsox0 installed before Lenny's sox will work. I have just done this. The install went OK, so did the re-install of Lenny's sox. But, when trying to call 'sox -h' (or any call to sox), I get this : b...@new-host:~$ sox -h s

Re: serious problem upgrading sox

2010-01-29 Thread Bernard
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 29 January 2010 13:47:14 Bernard wrote: So, I removed it and tried to re-install the old version after removing the testing addresses in my /etc/apt/sources.list and updating. But this backstep appear impossible to achieve... Downgrading package

Re: serious problem upgrading sox

2010-01-29 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:05:22 +0100, Bernard wrote: >> You should never mingle Lenny & testing, even if you think you know >> everything. >> > Thanks for this advice. No, I don't think that I know everything... The fundamental difference between Lenny & testing (libc for eg) will cause you never-

Re: serious problem upgrading sox

2010-01-29 Thread Bernard
T o n g wrote: On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:47:14 +0100, Bernard wrote: On my Debian Lenny system, the sox version that I had installed (v14.0.1) was somewhat outdated, so I tried to install 14.3, which appeared to be available only on 'testing' repositories... You should never mingle Lenny

Re: serious problem upgrading sox

2010-01-29 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:47:14 +0100, Bernard wrote: > On my Debian Lenny system, the sox version that I had installed > (v14.0.1) was somewhat outdated, so I tried to install 14.3, which > appeared to be available only on 'testing' repositories... You should never mingle Lenny & testing, even if y

Re: serious problem upgrading sox

2010-01-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 29 January 2010 13:47:14 Bernard wrote: > So, I removed it and tried to re-install the old version after removing > the testing addresses in my /etc/apt/sources.list and updating. But this > backstep appear impossible to achieve... Downgrading package is not supported. There's a very si

serious problem upgrading sox

2010-01-29 Thread Bernard
Hi to Everyone, On my Debian Lenny system, the sox version that I had installed (v14.0.1) was somewhat outdated, so I tried to install 14.3, which appeared to be available only on 'testing' repositories. So, removed my v14.0.1, then I modified my /etc/apt/sources.list, and after an 'apt-get u