-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Persson wrote: > That said, there's still the issue of the version numbers. As far > as apt is concerned I am downgrading from 1:4.23f13-1.1 to 5.04.0-1 > which is going to cause problems. The only thing I can think of > doing is to have a go at the deb from sourceforge with a hex editor > and see if I can change some of those numbers.
Actually it turns out to be much easier than I thought to edit a .deb file. You simply use dpkg-deb -xe to unpack it, edit DEBIAN/control and then use dpkg-deb -b to put it back together. So I did that, installed it, and my system is sane once more. Robert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG5tScyQ3sfGecJBIRAjYiAKD1QNebqYnJs8/vbnRuaM68a0HfBgCgylhL K7zEHJad6U4Xmzmkovuw1ZQ= =Qm7b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
