Problems installing xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.45

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 20:01 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> Øyvind Stegard wrote:
> > Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> > 
> >> In order to solve a nasty problem with xorg-x11 I installed xorg-
> >> x11-6.8.2-45 from rawhide. Now it has been released under the name of:
> >> xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.45 and when trying to install this package using
> >> "yum update" I get:
> >>
> >> Transaction Check Error:   package xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-45 (which is
> >> newer than xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.45) is already installed
> >>
> >> As I am quite new with yum I don't know how to overcome this. What magic
> >> option will force the released version onto the system?
> > 
> > Look at list of files yum proposes to download/install, then download 
> > them manually from 
> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/

Easy way of doing this:

# yum install yum-utils
(gets yum-utils from Extras is you don't already have it)

# yumdownloader $(rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}\n' xorg-x11\* | uniq)

> > Then (in the folder _only_ containing the newly downloaded xorg-rpms):
> > $ rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm
> > 
> > .. to force install/update.
> > 
> > Øyvind
> Yes my previous mail was a bit screwed but the right option wrong 
> programme... IMHO it is not advisable to use the '--force' option - it 
> breaks things,
> 
> Your method is good but I'd suggest '--oldpackage' to replace '--force'

Correct. Using --force is almost never necessary or desirable.

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