Timothy Murphy wrote: > I find yum a marvelous resource, so the following should not be taken > as even a mild criticism. > > I recently tried to download gnokii-devel, > but I was told this required an older version of gnokii than I had, > as shown below. > I'm not sure where I got the "fc8" version I have - > I don't normally open any non-standard repositories, > but I might have done so in error. > > I tested "yum remove gnokii" but this would have removed > dozens of packages. > > I'm just wondering: what is the standard way of dealing with this > yum quandary, if indeed there is a way? > One way of dealing with it is to use rpm to remove the package, and then use yum to install the other version. You will need to use the --nodeps option of rpm, and you have to be careful that you do not remove a package that yum or rpm depends on when doing this. A safer way of doing it is to download the RPM, and use rpm to replace the newer package with the older one. The --oldpackage option of rpm is designed specifically for this. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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