On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 14:32 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > What is the best way of replacing a package by an older version? > > Recent versions of X have not worked on my Sony C1VFK Picturebook. > [To be honest I have not tried the most recent version, > as I have "exclude=xorg-x11*" in my /etc/yum.conf .] > > But I'm thinking that the X in FC4 will probably not work, > and I'd like to be able to install my present working version > (which I compiled) if that is so. > > Any suggestions gratefully received. If you want to downgrade to a set of home-made packages, put the packages you want to use in a directory of their own and do: # rpm -Uvh --oldpackage *.rpm This will work as long as nothing that is already installed (and not being downgraded) depends on something that's in the currently-installed packages and is not provided by your downgraded versions. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
