Am 05. May, 2007 schwätzte gm5729 so: > Apt generally does not handle downgrades too easily. You may have to In my experience it does a great job with downgrades. You do have to make some configuration changes and make sure you can get the packages you need. A few years ago I worked at a startup that was tracking unstable. No two boxes were even close to being alike on identical hardware. I went through and downgraded most of them to testing/frozen. I had trouble with a script to use version= and don't remember whether or not I used it in the end or just moved everything to whatever was in the repository. We had some packages that needed to come from unstable, so I pinned them. The dependencies coming out of unstable was a pain, but it mostly worked. The big issue was keeping all of the unused libraries. I used deborphan to clean that up. aptitude and synaptic can now handle knowing if a package was installed by name or as a dependency. If it was installed as a dependency and all of the packages depending on it are removed aptitude and synaptic will suggest removing the package. That's quite nice. > look for your file in Old Stable (Sarge) and change your > /etc/apt/sources.list for Sarge. Do realize though that there were > changes made to X11 system from Sarge to Etch. They went from Xfree86 > to Xorg in those two releases. The libraries might not be compatible > and cause even further degradation to your system. True, the change from XFree86 to Xorg might be an issue. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF, All my base, Are belong to you.