Restore Dapper after Edgy

[NoOp]

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> 
>> Questions:
>> 1. How to restore a Dapper system back to its basic files without
>> destroying any /home user data and having to reinstall and repartition
>> the disk? This seems to me to be a basic requirement of this system.
>> 
>> 2. How to upgrade to the next Ubuntu version without having to depend on
>> ubuntu-desktop which installs seriously outdated files?
>> 
>> 3. Why is Dapper 6.06x 2 revisions behind OpenOffice when OOo is an
>> integrated part of the OS desktop? Note: after cleaning out all of the
>> Ubuntu dated files (2.0.2) OOo 2.0.4 installs and runs just fine.
>> 
>> Suggestions/comments? I'm sure that I'm not the only one that has this
>> issue and has corrupted their system with mixed version files.
> 
> I know that this isn't what you want.. but.. I would actually suggest:
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> From the edgy repos. I was in a similar boat recently. Edgy is working
> just fine for me :)
> 
> Joshua D. Drake
> 
> 

Yeah... but it doesn't address the basic request for backing down to
your existing version if you screw up and install an application from a
forward repository. I still strongly think that there should be a script
that will allow you to restore your system to the existing base version
in cases like this (perhaps a system restore).

Regarding Edgy; I figured I'd give it a try on one of my test machines.
I'm now 8 hours into the "upgrade" using  gksudo "update-manager -c -d"
and it's still not finished. Apparently the update limits the download
speed, and it took over 7 hours to download the required 1054 files.
Odd, since it's connected to a verified & well working 1.5MB DSL
connection. The update connection limited the speed to between 15Kb/s
and 30kb/s. Speed tests on the link via other networked computers verify
downloads at the same time at 1.2Mbps to 800Kbps per sec. Perhaps it's
because the Ubuntu servers are loaded due to the release today, and
they've limited the bandwidth. If that's the case, I wouldn't blame them.