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jrsv

Member

Registered: 2020-10-12

Posts: 6

how to downgrade to 4.18 from 4.20 in AVLinux MX edition

Hello Forum,

I got an oficial upgrade from AVL MX repo and decided to install as it was the officially tested for MX, however after upgrade xfce4 does not start. I have no panel, no whisker, nothing. I have a warning for a bunch of unmet dependencies (which is annoying as I upgraded through official upgrade tool and repos). SO now I want to downgrade to 4.18. I have no time to deal with fixing this, the problem is that 4.18 is no longer available in the repos, so how would I downgrade?

please help

thanks

my unmet dependencies from one source of the official mx package manager are:

xfce4-panel : Depends: libgtk-layer-shell0 (>= 0.6.0) but it is not installable
               Depends: libxfce4panel-2.0-4 (>= 4.19.1) but 4.18.6-1~mx23 is to be installed
xfce4-session : Depends: libgtk-layer-shell0 (>= 0.6.0) but it is not installable
                 Recommends: light-locker but it is not installable or
                             xfce4-screensaver but it is not going to be installed or
                             xscreensaver but it is not going to be installed or
                             gnome-screensaver but it is not installable or
                             mate-screensaver but it is not installable
                 Recommends: systemd-sysv
xfce4-settings : Depends: libgtk-layer-shell0 (>= 0.5.1) but it is not installable
                  Recommends: colord but it is not installable
                  Recommends: xiccd but it is not installable
xfdesktop4 : Depends: libgtk-layer-shell0 (>= 0.6.0) but it is not installable

and form another source

Package xfce4-genmon-plugin is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Package xfce4-places-plugin is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Package xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Package xfce4-wavelan-plugin is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Package xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Package xfce4-xkb-plugin is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Unable to locate package xfce4-datetime-plugin
E: Package 'xfce4-genmon-plugin' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package xfce4-mount-plugin
E: Package 'xfce4-places-plugin' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'xfce4-wavelan-plugin' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin' has no installation candidate
E: Package 'xfce4-xkb-plugin' has no installation candidate

eriefisher

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From: ON, Canada

Registered: 2008-10-25

Posts: 659

Re: how to downgrade to 4.18 from 4.20 in AVLinux MX edition

Either you have a source.list issue or MX has a repo issue. First try to get everything synced.

apt update

I don't know what MX uses, either upgrade or dist-upgrade or maybe full-upgrade.

apt upgrade

If you see any errors you can try

apt -f install

I would check with the folks over at MX to clarify the correct procedure. I'm not even sure if those folks have released 4.20 yet?

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Jerry3904

Member

Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 873

Re: how to downgrade to 4.18 from 4.20 in AVLinux MX edition

I would check with the folks over at MX to clarify the correct procedure. I'm not even sure if those folks have released 4.20 yet?

Well, exactly. For the record, we released MX-23.5 Sunday night and it brought a well-tested 4.20 with it (and we use dist-upgrade). AVLinux is not an official MX version but uses the same repos. No one else has reported these problems and I suppose that OP may had a faulty download or something similar.

jrsv: please use the MX Forum > MX respins to resolve this problem.

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jrsv

Member

Registered: 2020-10-12

Posts: 6

Re: how to downgrade to 4.18 from 4.20 in AVLinux MX edition

Either you have a source.list issue or MX has a repo issue. First try to get everything synced.

apt update

I don't know what MX uses, either upgrade or dist-upgrade or maybe full-upgrade.

apt upgrade

If you see any errors you can try

apt -f install

I would check with the folks over at MX to clarify the correct procedure. I'm not even sure if those folks have released 4.20 yet?

cheers, thanks.

but from XFCE4 there is no repo that holds the old 4.18 for downgrade? I will ask in MX forums,

thanks again