Re: Downgrading wwwoffle?

Morten Bo Johansen <nospam-trwyUR2iyL5aa/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.wwwoffle.user
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Felix Karpfen <[email protected]> wrote:

> So, is it <possible|wise> to install WWWOFFLE-2.8c from source on my
> Debian box and then use my RedHat cache.

As for the first part of the question, surely. In that case I'd just
recommend using a program like GNU stow or the Encap package manager so
you avoid the risk of scattering out files that might later cause some
conflict with your regular package system.

Installing the Debian package and then copying over the spool from RH
into the directory where Debian keeps it, seems like another option.

> that do not exist on my RedHat box.  In addition, there are many more
> entries in /etc/wwwoffle directory.  These were not removed with a
> simple "apt-get remove" (because they were not empty).

> Are "deletes" sufficient - or will that simply break something else.

The command 

    dpkg --purge <package>
    
removes all files in the package.


Morten
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