This sort of question should probably be directed to the debian-user list.
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:00:19AM +0800, ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I'm using the stable distribution and it works well. Yesterday I > installed a package and found it has a bug. As someone said the bug > has been solved in the newer version, I went to the debian package web > site and downloaded a new version deb package from the testing > distribution. > I tried to install it with "dpkg -i" and as I expected the > installation failed because of the version unmatching of lots of > packages it depends on. But unexpectedly, the older version of the > package doesn't work any more. That's because only one version of a package can be installed at a time. Upgrading a package overwrites the old version. > I tried to reinstall the older version > with apt-get but it complains that the dependency don't match. It > seems that the newer version from the testing distribution has > replaced the older one from the stable distribution. So my question > are: > 1. How can I roll back to the old version from the stable distribution? Run "apt-get install package/stable", or download the package from the Debian Web site and install it with "dpkg -i". > 2. If I have to build the newer version from source code by myself, is > there an easy way to do this? Because the newer version package > requires lost of other newer version packages, building all of them > seems to be a tough work. Yes, backporting packages to stable is often a tricky process. You could try http://www.backports.org and see if someone has done the work for you already. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
