Is it possible to revert after an upgrade?

[leonbnu]

My LMDE is screwed up after a careless "dist-upgrade". Somehow, X couldn't start again and lots of unmet dependencies. The whole system is a mess now. Is it possible to revert back or switch back to testing?

[vincent]

Are you saying that you switched your repos to point to Sid/unstable? In that case, no, there is no easy way to revert from unstable to testing.

[leonbnu]

Are you saying that you switched your repos to point to Sid/unstable? In that case, no, there is no easy way to revert from unstable to testing.

yeah, forgot to comment out the unstable deb source in the sources.list before upgrade.....

[libssd]

Backup, backup, backup.

I recently copied some files to what turned out to be a defective USB thumb drive, then deleted them temporarily from the internal drive. When I went to copy the files back, I discovered that some were unreadable. Restored from a backup made 24 hours earlier, no drama.

[leonbnu]

Now, I really wish Linux Mint team could write a apt-get wrapper to force a restore checkpoint by default before each upgrade.

[jeffreyC]

With apt preferences aka apt-pinning it can be possible to downgrade packages.

But if you can't get into X ?

I hope you have a separate home partition.