apt question (downgrading and installing from source)
In order to get a few packages to the versions I wanted them at, I ended up using packages from unstable. Unfortunately, I ended up getting libc6 and a few other important ones. Now I'm seeing various errors sporadically that I suspect are related to this upgrade. First question, what's the easiest way of working out what to revert back to? Ideally I need to be able to work out which packages installed on my system don't match the ones in my sources list. Once I do that, I'll get rid of the packages that require libc6 and so on, and manually downgrade. Second question, one I've got back to a stable system, I'm wanting to install some of the unstable packages by downloading unstable source and then compiling it into a custom package. What's the best way to do this, for example, for vorbis-tools? - Chris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt question (downgrading and installing from source)
Chris Kenrick wrote: In order to get a few packages to the versions I wanted them at, I ended up using packages from unstable. Unfortunately, I ended up getting libc6 and a few other important ones. Now I'm seeing various errors sporadically that I suspect are related to this upgrade. First question, what's the easiest way of working out what to revert back to? Ideally I need to be able to work out which packages installed on my system don't match the ones in my sources list. Once I do that, I'll get rid of the packages that require libc6 and so on, and manually downgrade. Second question, one I've got back to a stable system, I'm wanting to install some of the unstable packages by downloading unstable source and then compiling it into a custom package. What's the best way to do this, for example, for vorbis-tools? - Chris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com For your fist problem there seems to be something on http://www.debianplanet.org look here... http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=880 How to build debian packages for your own system is described here... http://www.kclee.com/clemens/unix/HowToCreateYourOwnDebianPackage.html Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]