Subj : GIMP Up
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Barry Martin
Date : Mon Sep 01 2025 06:59:00


Hi Ky!

 >   > You can stick with 2.10 if you like.
 >   MP> Maybe.  I wanted to revert back to an older version of some other
 >   MP> program but it was going to be too difficult to get the old
 >   MP> dependencies correct.  I had kept it working through a couple of
 >   MP> upgrades but this one finally broke it for good.
 > So this suggestion is now too late but at the time you could have used
 > the apt-hold option to retain a set of files:
 >         sudo apt-mark hold <application>
 >         sudo apt-mark hold <associated libraries -- wildcard allowed>
 > This will also cause an error to be seen later when the system tries to
 > upgrade these files; just ignore.
 KM> Having done this in the past... there came a point where I had to
 KM> unhold it, because it also held some dependency that the rest of
 KM> the system could not live without and had to be updated. So I had
 KM> to wave goodbye to the former hold.
 KM> I have concluded, from this and other painful moments, that
 KM> nothing should be held if you can possibly avoid it.
 
Makes sense.  One possibility that came to mind would be to save the 
hold files somewhere, allow the updating, then restore.  ...I'd probably
compare the two version groups to see which one(s) the system really 
needed.  ...The more I type that the more it sound like a heck of a lot 
of work that is going to result in a broken system.

Maybe just a dedicated system (virtual machine?), isolated from the
outside world?


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