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Hack: fixing broken coreutils install (Was Re: coreutils-5.3.0-8: lost *.exe)
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Jon A. Lambert wrote:
> I have coreutils-5.2.1-5 sitting here in my releases directory but setup
> won't let me select it. How the heck do I get back to a working version
> of coreutils.
You should at least be able to select the "prev" version (which is
5.2.1-5). If you want to get back to 5.3.0-7, the simplest workaround is
"cp coreutils-5.3.0-7.tar.bz2 coreutils-5.3.0-8.tar.bz2" and reinstall
5.3.0-8. Stay tuned for 5.3.0-9.
Igor
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