Problem with yum

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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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