Re: dnf downgrade dependencies

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 13 Mar 2025 at 22:58, Dave Close wrote:

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> > On 3/13/25 10:20 PM, Dave Close wrote:
> > > I've decided I'm unhappy with one of the changes made by the most
> > > recent version of LibreOffice, 24.8, and I want to try going back to
> > > the previous version, 24.2, which is part of the FC40 repository.
> > > But I'm astounded by the result of the command below. (Without
> > > allowerasing the command won't do anything.)
>
> Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > libreoffice has many dependencies and if you downgrade those to what 
> > that version needs, then you have to also downgrade all the packages 
> > that depend on those dependencies.
>
> Well then, I suppose I could download the source package and try to
> build it on FC41...

Sent a longer reply to Dave Close.

But you can have both the Fedora version of Libre Office and a 
Libre Office version at the same time. They can be installed at same 
time.

On my Fedora 41 machine I have the two versions running.
So, I'm doing the reverse of what he wants. I have the default 
24.8.5.2 version of Fedora 41 and have the newer 25.2.1.2 version.
Installing the LibreOffice version puts the files in /opt directory, 
while the Fedora version is in its location. Menu shows both.
Just showing writer packages as example.
libreoffice25.2-writer-25.2.1.2-2.x86_64
libreoffice-writer-24.8.5.2-1.fc41.x86_64

# which libreoffice
/usr/bin/libreoffice
# which libreoffice25.2 
/usr/bin/libreoffice25.2
# ls -l /usr/bin/libreoffice25.2 
/usr/bin/libreoffice25.2 -> /opt/libreoffice25.2/program/soffice

So, except for doubling the space to have two versions for testing.

Doesn't show any issues that I've seen? But limited testing.
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