Thread: Modest Beta for OS2008 Now Out
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2008-04-15 , 16:21
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Originally Posted by paps View Post
1. What is the difference from following all of these instructions and simply clicking on uninstall and then running the older debs from here?
That's what those instructions are telling you to do. The problem is that you can't just "apt-get remove modest" because it doesn't remove some of the other libraries. And if you only uninstall and then downgrade the modest package itself, you will probably still keep having some of the problems you were having before. I found that the only way to completely uninstall the modest packages, then install an older version, was to follow those instructions.

Originally Posted by paps View Post
2. If this is necessary for proper uninstall / downgrade, are these instructions still valid as alephito was asking (i mean besides that I would need to change version numbers from w10 to w14 or whatever I wanted)?
Yes, you can use those instructions, you'll just have to choose the version you want to downgrade to. The easy way to find the right files to downgrade to is look at the dates on the .debs, they will all be the same date for a single release.

EDIT: I just noticed that the date is the same (11-Apr-2008) for the last two releases, 15 & 16. So it will be a bit trickier. Go for the files with the date-time of 11-Apr-2008 20:07 for W15.
Last edited by qole; 2008-04-15 at 16:27. Reason: Same date for 15 & 16!