Re: Call to help testing osb for backward compatibility

[Christof Thalhofer <chrisml@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 21.12.24 um 18:19 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> Le 21/12/2024 à 18:13, T Lee Davidson a écrit :
> > There is a warning near the top of the page: "When you add the openSUSE
> > build service repository for the first time, remove all previous
> > installations of Gambas entirely, to prevent any weird dependency problem."
>
> Maybe. I added that in the first place so that people don't destroy
> their system because of incorrect packages.

On Debian/Ubuntu I "backup" the old installation before testing OBS by 
simply saving the names of the existing Gambas packages.

This Shell command gives a string with all installed Gambas packages:

> dpkg -l | grep gambas3 | awk '{print $2}' | tr '\n' ' '

It can be saved and used later if one wants to switch back to the 
Launchpad Gambas.

Before installing another Gambas one can remove all existing Gambas 
packages with:

> sudo apt remove $(dpkg -l | grep gambas3 | awk '{print $2}' | tr '\n' ' ')

To switch back one has to change the source definitions  in '/etc/apt/', 
remove the existing Gambas packages and then

> sudo apt install $string-with-backupped-packagenames

I am not familiar with other package management systems.

Alles Gute

Christof Thalhofer

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