Re: package problem
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Hi Ray,
On 20-11-2007 10:58, ray wrote:
> I'm using the stable distribution and it works well. Yesterday I
> installed a package and found it has a bug. As someone said the bug
> has been solved in the newer version, I went to the debian package web
> site and downloaded a new version deb package from the testing
> distribution.
> I tried to install it with "dpkg -i" and as I expected the
> installation failed because of the version unmatching of lots of
> packages it depends on. But unexpectedly, the older version of the
> package doesn't work any more. I tried to reinstall the older version
> with apt-get but it complains that the dependency don't match. It
> seems that the newer version from the testing distribution has
> replaced the older one from the stable distribution. So my question
> are:
> 1. How can I roll back to the old version from the stable distribution?
> 2. If I have to build the newer version from source code by myself, is
> there an easy way to do this? Because the newer version package
> requires lost of other newer version packages, building all of them
> seems to be a tough work.
> Thanks in advance.
debian-policy is not the right list for this kind of
question, try debian-user instead:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user
Kind regards,
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Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
"Debian. Freedom to code. Code to freedom!"
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