Can't install 2.6.9 kernel with yum?

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:05 -0300, Clodoaldo Pinto wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 02:41:57 +0100, Thomas Chung (tchung)
> <no-reply-gw at fcp.homelinux.org> wrote:
> > I hope this article is useful to you.
> > 
> > http://fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-remove/
> > 
> 
> Yum can remove kernel.i686 0:2.6.10-1.766_FC3 with no problems.
> 
> But when I try to remove kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 I get:
> 
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Check Error:   package hal-0.4.7-1.FC3 (which is newer
> than hal-0.4.0-10) is already installed
> 
> Then I try to remove hal-0.4.7-1.FC3 first and:
> 
> # yum remove hal-0.4.7-1.FC3
> ...
>   Update: hal.i386 0:0.4.0-10
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> Running Transaction Test
> Finished Transaction Test
> Transaction Check Error:   package hal-0.4.7-1.FC3 (which is newer
> than hal-0.4.0-10) is already installed

Yum won't install older versions of packages than those you already have
installed. You'll need to download the 2.6.9-1.724_FC3 kernel RPM
yourself and install it using rpm:

# rpm -ivh --oldpackage kernel-2.6.9-1.724_FC3.*.rpm

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>