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
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