Need workaround for outdated csound version
Robert Persson
ireneshusband at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 18:47:13 BST 2007
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Robert Persson wrote:
> That said, there's still the issue of the version numbers. As far
> as apt is concerned I am downgrading from 1:4.23f13-1.1 to 5.04.0-1
> which is going to cause problems. The only thing I can think of
> doing is to have a go at the deb from sourceforge with a hex editor
> and see if I can change some of those numbers.
Actually it turns out to be much easier than I thought to edit a .deb
file. You simply use dpkg-deb -xe to unpack it, edit DEBIAN/control
and then use dpkg-deb -b to put it back together. So I did that,
installed it, and my system is sane once more.
Robert
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