On Sat, 2014-08-16 at 15:50 +1000, Tim wrote: > ppa-purge doesnt correctly handle things when packages have been renamed, for > example libgnome-desktop-3-8 wont downgrade to libgnome-desktop-3-7. > > Probably the best thing to do is run ppa-purge and make a note of all > packages that it wants to remove, but continue anyway. Then before you > reboot reinstall ubuntu-gnome-desktop, that should pull in most of the > packages that were removed. Finally manually reinstall any other packages > that got removed but shouldnt have (this would probably only be things not > included in default packageset). > Thank you for the advice. I just did a downgrade since Evolution in 3.12 has a bug I can't get around. Your suggested procedure worked great and I am safely back on 3.10.
> On 16/08/14 13:28, Christian Dysthe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The last time I tried to downgrade from staging I was left unable to > > login. When I look closer important packages like gdm was removed when > > using ppa-purge. Is this a known problem, or did something go wrong for > > me? I would like to know before I try again. If there is a problem, is > > there a workaround for downgrading? > > > > -- //Christian Dropbox. Your files from anywhere: http://db.tt/U8MqkVR -- Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome
