[Ubuntu-PH] Downgrading from Meerkat to Lynx

[Allan E. Registos]

According to this site: http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html 
Apt pinning allows you to access the latest updates without compromising the stability of your system. When it is enabled, you can have lynx installed but can access Meerkat's latest updates but this will only apply to applications(non critical updates) only. So if iamthechickengod at gmail.com 's module is a driver module, this may serve him best. 

However, ubuntu recommends backports rather than apt-pinning: 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Zak B. Elep" <zakame at gmail.com> 
To: "Mailing List para sa Ubuntu Pilipinas (Philippines)" <ubuntu-ph at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 8:21:25 PM 
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-PH] Downgrading from Meerkat to Lynx 



It is actually possible, Google for "apt pinning". 

Of course, dragons lay in wait. That's why most just tend to restart from scratch. 
On Oct 17, 2010 5:24 PM, "JC John Sese Cuneta" < jcjohn.sesecuneta at laibcoms.com > wrote: 
> I think it is not possible to downgrade as much as we can not downgrade from 
> Windows 7 to Windows Vista. OSes are one path only… upgrade. Newer 
> versions changes a lot of things (and deletes a lot too) which makes the 
> downgrade path very messy so no one is creating a downgrade option. (That's 
> how I understand the logic behind it.) 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 4:29 PM, [C]hicken [G] od < 
> iamthechickengod at gmail.com > wrote: 
> 
>> I wiped my whole drive and reinstalled Lynx since Meerkat could not load a 
>> module properly. If I ever need to upgrade back to Meerkat but wish to go 
>> back to Lynx, is there a way to go back without reinstalling the whole thing 
>> again? 
>> 
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