Nevermind. I always forget how to tell dselect explicitly what packages to use. I've got it now. Once nice thing about the deb system is that you can feel better about doing things that break dependencies, because you can always strip things to a point where the machine will put stuff back on to fill holes. (I said you can feel better, not "you can feel good.") ;) Cheers, Phil On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Philip C Mendelsohn wrote: > Sorry if this has been asked before, and I'm still looking through TFMs, > but I added something (I think aviplayer) from unstable to my nice boring, > working stable (Debian potato) system and in the process broke xdm since I > forget to tell it not to upgrade other things. > > I haven't yet found a good way to downgrade with apt-get. is there any? > > dpkg would do it, but its pretty manual. Have I any other options? > > I just want to go back to my nice old X (3.3.6?) and working xdm. Going > forward with a dist-upgrade looks like 300MB on a 56k modem (ick). Any > wise tips on how to (quickly!) pull it off the potato CDs? > > (This is where my old but nifty Exabyte is not helping -- Didn't figure > I'd need to back up all that, just configs!) > > Thanx > > -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous