On 2011-05-08 18:56, Luther Woodrum wrote:
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A freind chose the upgrade to 11.04 option from 10.04.1.
Now he cannot access any of the files from the file manager, even though
they are all there r/w from the command line.
The FM reports I/O error for anything. None of the applications work
either.
Wow. That's pretty ugly.
Is there a simple way to downgrade to 10.04.1 from the 10.04.1 DVD
by preserving all the files?
It seems like it should work.
It isn't as easy as that, because one of the basic presumptions that
Linux package manager systems use is that you want to keep the latest
version of packages installed. So in doing this you'd switch back to
the 10.04.1 repository, do an 'apt-get update', but then even if you
choose to do an "upgrade", the system will not downgrade to everything
in the repository -- you have to go into the package manager and choose
packages to downgrade -- individually. This will then likely cause
conflicts with other packages that require a later version of the things
you're downgrading, and so you then need to manually need to downgrade
those -- and so on. Going "forward" is much easier than going "back" is.
So yeah, you can do it ... but it needs to be done carefully and by
someone who knows what they're doing, and likely needs to be done in stages.
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-- Chris
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