Just realized that this didn't go to the whole Lubuntu qa list and others may have valuable input.
Lance --- On Sat, 7/14/12, Lance <[email protected]> wrote: From: Lance <[email protected]> Subject: Re: abiword revert script To: "Jonathan Marsden" <[email protected]> Cc: "Phill Whiteside" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, July 14, 2012, 6:26 AM Jonathan, Regarding your existing bash script; it's fine but there's probably no need to start with updating, upgrading and running "-f install" at the beginning. I included that as a "sanity check" of sorts. The same is true about updating and running "-f install" at the end, just another sanity check ;^) You sparked my interest though about creating a new source and I gained a little, but I'm not there yet :^( First of all purge remains the same, but I'm wondering if I should wild-card any of the packages? I'd remind you that I'm intent on making this work with Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, and Kubuntu ;^) Aside from that I can easily create a new source with: sudo sed -e s'/precise/oneiric/g' /etc/apt/sources.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.oneiric I had to ask for some help regarding "apt-get -c": http://lists.debian.org/deity/2005/05/msg00236.html And after reading that I ended up with: sudo apt-get -o Item::Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/sources.list.oneiric update So far, so good ;^) But I still get Precise packages trying this: sudo apt-get -o Item::Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/sources.list.oneiric install abiword So I'm a bit stumped (and tired) ATM :^( OTOH I PM'ed Eliah Kagan about this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~degeneracypressure/+archive/abiword Regardless it's good to be able to collaborate with others on such an issue. Lance --- On Sat, 7/14/12, Jonathan Marsden <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jonathan Marsden <[email protected]> Subject: abiword revert script To: "Lance" <[email protected]> Cc: "Phill Whiteside" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, July 14, 2012, 12:30 AM Lance and Phill, I'm very short on time but here is a quick script based on the commands in the forum post. That much cutting and pasting is a lot to ask; maybe downloading and running one script would be easier for some users? There is more that could be done, for example the sed command directly edit the main sources.list file; it might be safer to do something like sed -e 's/precise/oneiric/g' /etc/apt/sources.list |sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.oneiric and then use that new config file for the relevant apt-get commands by using the -c option: apt-get -c /etc/apt/sources.list.oneiric update This is safer because you can't accidentally forget to undo the change - there *is* no change to the default sources.list file at all this way. I lack time to test and implement this idea right now though, apologies. Jonathan
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