Does 'YUM install' always install the latest app version?

[Rejy M Cyriac]

On 09/05/2013 11:01 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Martin S <shieldfire at gmail.com
> <mailto:shieldfire at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Yum default behaviour would be (AFAIK) to install version 23.0 as it
>     would report 21.0 already installed. And find nothing to do.
> 
> 
> Suppose we're talking about a package which is not part of the base
> install. Or that we're talking about Fedora XFCE whose default browser
> is not Firefox :)
> 
> FC
> 
> 
Yum would always default to installing the highest version available,
unless you provide the specific version number at the command.

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Regards,

Rejy M Cyriac (rmc)