8.10 Updates damaging applications

[John L Fjellstad]

Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> writes:

> I will take your and my wife's advice, and replace 8.10 with 8.04.

You could just wait a couple of days to see if there are new KDE
packages coming in that fixes the problem.

> 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), and work out how to 
> replace 8.10 with 8.04.

I think in general, it should be possible to share the /home
directories.  The specific problem right now is that KDE is too much in
flux to share between different versions. 

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John L. Fjellstad
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