Downgrade from 3.12 Staging.

[Tim]

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).


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? 
>