How to erase updates?

[Karl Larsen]

Ashley Pritchard wrote:
> you use the command "rpm -e {the package you want to uninstall}" this 
> will uninstall any pakage you want to uninstall. you can also use the 
> add & remove utility as well to remove the programs that you do not want. 
> 
> On 8/7/07, *Karl Larsen* <k5di at zianet.com <mailto:k5di at zianet.com>> wrote:
> 
>            I have a list from yum.log of the rpm files I want to remove so
>     printing will work again. I tried yum remove but it wants to remove all
>     of the thing not just the update.
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	I get this when I use your method. It doesn't work!

Aug 06 13:54:19 Updated: udev.i386 113-8.fc7
Aug 06 13:55:13 Updated: pidgin.i386 2.1.0-1.fc7
Aug 06 13:55:14 Updated: strace.i386 4.5.16-1.fc7
Aug 06 13:55:21 Updated: openssl-devel.i386 0.9.8b-14.fc7
[root at k5di log]# rpm -e udev.i386 113-8.fc7
error: package 113-8.fc7 is not installed
[root at k5di log]# rpm -qi udev.i386 113-8.fc7
Name        : udev                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 113                               Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 8.fc7                         Build Date: Mon 30 Jul 2007 
10:37:09 AM MDT
Install Date: Mon 06 Aug 2007 01:54:18 PM MDT      Build Host: 
xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: 
udev-113-8.fc7.src.rpm
Size        : 769219                           License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Mon 06 Aug 2007 09:49:29 AM MDT, Key ID 
b44269d04f2a6fd2
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/
Summary     : A userspace implementation of devfs
Description :
The udev package contains an implementation of devfs in
userspace using sysfs and netlink.
package 113-8.fc7 is not installed
[root at k5di log]#


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