Is there a safe or easy downgrade FC5 > FC4??

Beartooth beartooth at adelphia.net
Sun Jun 18 20:22:09 UTC 2006


On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:30:00 -0400, Beartooth wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:09:44 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote inter alia :
> 
>> As for downgrades, there's no "supported" way of doing it. It's do-able,
>> but not easy, and I'd only try it as a last resort.
>> 
>> To install gnome, try this:
>> 
>> # yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop Environment'
[...]
> I'm in process of downloading the backup data with scp from the problem
> machine to the testbed one that I already downgraded; once that finishes,
> I'll try logging out, logging back in, logging into the new user (called
> GnomeTest), and if need be rebooting; and then report back. Many thanks to
> all!

Alas! even with the groupinstall done, my new user gets a fine gnome
desktop --but I as btth do not.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
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