[Novalug] upgrade problem from Ubuntu 13.04 (with Xfce) to Ubuntu 14.04

John Franklin franklin@elfie.org
Sun Aug 17 13:34:06 EDT 2014


Downgrading is a constant issue with all the Linux-based packaging systems I've seen.  I've been wishing for such a feature for over a decade now.

jf

On Aug 17, 2014, at 1:29 PM, Ed James via Novalug <novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:

> Only way I could - reboot the machine with the original 12.04 install DVD
> in the drive and re-install from scratch.  I was lucky (by planning) that
> this 12.04 to 14.04 thing was on a reasonably new install (no old data to
> sweat).  I did the 12.04->14.04 upgrade via the 'net to see if I wanted to
> upgrade my more important machines and discovered that I prolly did not
> want to do so.  I'm assuming that had I dl-ed a 14.04 image and did a
> direct 14.04 install that I'd have had the same issue.  Perhaps not.  No
> clue.
> 
> Bottom line - I've never found, for any package, a trustworthy way to
> downgrade an installation version.  And I'm not a trusting soul when it
> comes to other people's code anyway.  Been burned way too often.
> 
> Ed James
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Nino Pereira <ninorpereira@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> So, how do you go back to an older install that worked perfectly fine?
>> 
>> Nino
>> 
>> On 8/17/14, Ed James via Novalug <novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:
>>> Yeah, that's pretty much the same problem I had with 14.04.  I took that
>> as
>>> arrogance or lack-of-gorm on the part of the installer-writer (or maybe
>> the
>>> package-packer).  I might try again in 2017 and see if the problem still.
>> ​...
>> 
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