On Sunday 15 October 2000 16:21, Steve Simons wrote: > I've made a bit of a booboo recently. I apt-get installed a recent, > unstable version of mysql and it pulled in a few other packages (I can't > for the life of me remember what they were). > > The problem is, licq seems to be broken. I'm running potato, and > whatever version of licq is stable at present. When I try to run licq > now, I get a load of messages complaining about the IniFile and too many > open files: > > [WRN] IniFile: Warning, failed to find key. > File = /home/steve/.licq/owner.uin > Section = [user] > Key = "RCG" > ...etc > > There's a similar bug been reported (59540) but I can't find any mention > of it on SourceForge's site. > > Anyway, what I want to know is, can I force potato to downgrade to the > previous version of whatever it was that caused the problem by using > apt-get upgrade somehow? I only have potato and helixcode in my > sources.list again, but upgrade and dist-upgrade report nothing to do :( > > Someone point me in the right direction please, I couldn't face a > reinstall now. > > TIA, > Steve.
I am not sure you can downgrade anything using apt (but they are probably working on it :-). Other than downloading manually and using dpkg I don't know what to tell you. Just curious as to which version of licq you are running? 1.0-1 was just recently packaged, so you might want to have a crack at that one first. jt -- Once you've had APT you'll never go back!