I'm running Linux Mint 17.1 on my old desktop pc. Since I moved, I had no internet connection, but could use the WLAN of my neighbors. For that, I had to install an old FRITZ! USB WLAN driver. I did that by downloading a bunch of required packages via a WLAN capable notebook, copied the deb-files to the pc and installed them via
sudo dpkg -i
Here are the packages that I installed during the offline installation:
- ndiswrapper-common_1.59-2_all.deb
- ndiswrapper-dkms_1.59-2_all.deb
- ndiswrapper-source_1.59-2_all.deb
- ndiswrapper-utils-1.9_1.59-2+b1_i386.deb
and the packages that I additionally installed to solve dependency problems:
- dpkg-dev_1.17.24_all.deb
- po-debconf_1.0.16+nmu3_all.deb
- module-assistant_0.11.7_all.deb
- html2text_1.3.2a-18_i386.deb
- libdpkg-perl_1.17.24_all.deb
- libstdc++6_4.9.2-10_i386.deb
- gcc-4.9-base_4.9.2-10_i386.deb
The WLAN-driver worked. The problem is, I installed package versions, that are newer than the current Ubuntu packages. Since then, I can't get updates anymore due to a broken package (libgcc1).
Now, I have a wired LAN connection again and I want to fix the problem. When I run
sudo apt-get install -f
apt wants to remove a bunch of packages and I get the message "You are about to do something potentially harmful"... This is not what I want to do ;)
All I want to do is to get my old system back, which means all packages in the current ubuntuUbuntu version (trusty-updates). How can I achieve this?
Thanks in advance for every tipp!
