I want to go back to 14.1 from 64-current. I've never done this before, so I was wondering, can I just change my slackpkg mirror to a 14.1 mirror and do it that way (slackpkg update, slackpkg install-new, slackpkg upgrade-all), or is there anything else I need to be aware of?

I ask this because I'm not really sure what slackpkg defines as a "new" package, and the packages on my system are obviously going to be newer than the 14.1 packages, so I'm not sure what will happen.

Thanks in advance.

I've done this in the past. Depends on how far along Current is from the main tree. As of now, we are not that for off. A simple change in the mirror like you posted will do.

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Okay, thanks!

Don't forget "slackpkg clean-system"

Hmm, quick update. The reason I wanted to go back to stable is because I was having choppy, lagging scrolling on certain websites, such as this one:

http://www.dickblick.com/products/pa...nting-pastels/

And also my Netvibes homepage. I didn't have the problem a few weeks ago. I don't know what about those pages was so hard to process, but I assumed it was a graphics driver issue (my RAM usage never goes above 20 %), and that something must have changed in the kernel.

However, when I went to do the downgrade, I realized the kernel hadn't even changed--still 3.10.17. But I decided to change back anyway, and it fixed the issue. No more lagging.

I wonder what the culprit was? Maybe Firefox?

How is that site laggy? :O
It seems so simple and it runs smooth here (slackware stable too).

I didn't say the site was laggy. I said my browser scrolling was lagging on that site. I included the link because I don't do web design and I don't know what components of a website can be problematic.

And yes, I am running 14.1 stable and it is smooth now too. My issue was that on -current it was not. Reproducing the issue on -current would probably be more useful than reproducing the lack of it on stable.

Not that it really matters, of course . . . I was just curious what could have been causing the problem.

You can go between release and current as long as you keep two packages in mind... Glibc and glibc-kernel-headers. Once these are updated, do not try to revert or it could break the system.

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