On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 11:52:40PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 02:43:53PM -0800, Chime Hart wrote: > > Thank you for the suggestion of Jessie where I can run Voxin. Would their > > be a command I can run to switch from ASCII? Thanks so much in advance > > Downgrading is officially not supported, but it generally works without a > hitch. The easiest way is apt pinning: > > Write the following to /etc/apt/preferences : > Package: * > Pin: release n=jessie > Pin-Priority: 1001 > > then "apt dist-upgrade". Obviously, you need to have jessie sources in > /etc/apt/sources.list to have something to downgrade to. > > The documentation is in "man apt_preferences", TL;DR: priorities >= 100 > allow upgrading, priorities > 1000 allow downgrading. > > You'd probably want to delete ascii sources and comment out the preferences > afterwards, as it's a common pitfall to leave the pin in place then forget > it's there, which can make waste your time troubleshooting. > >
I guess you should also have ascii pinned to -1, otherwise ascii deps won't be downgraded... Package: * Pin: release n=ascii Pin-Priority: -1 My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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