On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 11:52:40PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 02:43:53PM -0800, Chime Hart wrote:
> > Thank you for the suggestion of Jessie where I can run Voxin. Would their
> > be a command I can run to switch from ASCII? Thanks so much in advance
>
> Downgrading is officially not supported, but it generally works without a
> hitch. The easiest way is apt pinning:
>
> Write the following to /etc/apt/preferences :
> Package: *
> Pin: release n=jessie
> Pin-Priority: 1001
>
> then "apt dist-upgrade". Obviously, you need to have jessie sources in
> /etc/apt/sources.list to have something to downgrade to.
>
> The documentation is in "man apt_preferences", TL;DR: priorities >= 100
> allow upgrading, priorities > 1000 allow downgrading.
>
> You'd probably want to delete ascii sources and comment out the preferences
> afterwards, as it's a common pitfall to leave the pin in place then forget
> it's there, which can make waste your time troubleshooting.
>
>

I guess you should also have ascii pinned to -1, otherwise ascii deps
won't be downgraded...

Package: *
Pin: release n=ascii
Pin-Priority: -1

My2Cents

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