On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 08:29:36PM -0500, Jay Strauss wrote: > I get the following when I: > > meir:~# apt-get install libc6/stable libc6-dev/stable locales/stable > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Selected version 2.2.5-11.5 (Debian-Security:3.0/stable) for libc6 > Selected version 2.2.5-11.5 (Debian-Security:3.0/stable) for libc6-dev > Selected version 2.2.5-11.5 (Debian-Security:3.0/stable) for locales > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > gdm: Depends: scrollkeeper (>= 0.1.4-1) but it is not going to be > installed > libdb1-compat: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13) but 2.2.5-11.5 is to be > installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify > a solution). > meir:~# >
When something like this happens, it means these probably need to be downgraded too. (Recursively until you get a downgrade that works) What occurred to me though, is that I should have simply suggested that you should try pinning stable at some value higher than 1000, and then dist-upgrade, which should do this more intelligently. Of course, if you've upgraded other packages beyond stable and only want to downgrade a few, then this method won't work (that's why I didn't think of it right away - I rarely want to downgrade my whole distribution) How to pin: In /etc/apt/preferences, put something like: Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 1100 After you're finished downgrading, then remove this from /etc/apt/preferences. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. If you don't know what it is, either ignore it or visit www.gnupg.org My PGP key was last signed 6/10/2003 please download my key again if it is more recent than your copy. If you use GPG, *please* talk to me to sign it. The key is keyID E2B2CAD1 on pgp.mit.edu
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