8.10 Updates damaging applications

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 12:23 +0900, Bret Busby wrote:
> I have just got to back up my home directory (I don't use a partition,
> as I have Debian 4.0 also installed on that computer, and did not want
> conflicts - I understand that home directories/partitions should not
> be shared between different Linux installations), 

That's probably a good idea to avoid difficult-to-debug issues

> and work out how to replace 8.10 with 8.04.

Probably best to just reinstall. Good luck, as if you need help.