--That's cool; I have to remember that for next time. You should go into ' aptitude ' and put a Hold on the packages that broke before so they don't get upgraded again.

Quote Originally Posted by beforewisdom
I found my own answer:

1. get the name of the previous package
2. use an '=' in place of space in the package name
3. put the package name in a normal apt-get install command:

$ apt-get install libc6=2.2

I was able to roll stuff back and get my editor working without paying for an upgrade

Steve