Downgrade from 3.12 Staging.

[Christian Dysthe]

On Sat, 2014-08-16 at 15:50 +1000, Tim wrote:
> 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).
> 
Thank you for the advice. I just did a downgrade since Evolution in 3.12 has a bug I can't get around.
Your suggested procedure worked great and I am safely back on 3.10.


> 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? 
> >
> 
> 

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//Christian

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