Re: [tlug] Printer Not Responding

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Jim" == Jim  <jep200404@example.com> writes:

    Jim> Mixing stuff from different versions of an OS is asking for
    Jim> trouble.

Why, Jim, I didn't know your other box ran Windows! ;-)

Seriously, what Scott is suggesting is an everyday occurrance.  It's
called "updating a package."  He's just proposing updating to a
previous version.  I do this occasionally for precisely the same
reasons as Dave would: some other package I have and can't/don't want
to upgrade/rebuild is not compatible with the latest and greatest.

The hairest part is that there's a strong bias toward "latest and
breakest", so that package managers get confused if you try to go
backwards.  So use the dry-run option to determine the level of
confusion.

    >> It might be a mess if other packages depend on the new version,
    >> but it is worth a try.

    Jim> Back up first.

Just do a dry-run.  (The relevant apt-get option is the marvellously
unintuitive "-s".)  If apt complains that you need to reinstall
packages that aren't obviously derivative of the main one, *don't do
it for real*.  If you've you've got some aptitude for this, you can
actually add those, do another dry-run, and see if apt continues to
drag in more packages.  If it stops without downgrading libc, you're
probably OK. :-)  More realistically, if there are only a couple of
extraneous packages you need to worry about, post the output from apt
here and get advice about whether you're likely to affect other
important packages.

    Jim> Seriously, emulation or UML is a cleaner saner way. 

Hey, don't bogart that joint!


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