[CentOS] Downgrade an rpm

Rudi Ahlers Rudi at SoftDux.com
Mon Mar 31 13:36:48 UTC 2008


Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Joseph L. Casale wrote on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:35:08 -0600:
>
>   
>> If I have used a 3rd party
>>     
>
> what is that?
>
>   
>> to install the app which dragged in many dependencies with it, what is
>>     
> the procedure to downgrade only the specific rpms I need?
>
> downgrade to what?
>
> I may be wrong but it sounds like you want to use CentOS in a way that it is
> not supposed to be used. e.g. it sounds like you want to replace CentOS rpms with
> older third-party rpms. Don't do that.
>
> BTW: it would be nice if you could stop using HTML, thanks.
>
>
> Kai
Kai, correct me if I'm wrong, but one is allowed to use other programs 
not supplied by CentOS. And surely if the user feels that xyz-1.2.3.rpm 
is giving him problems, and he wants to use xyz-1.2.0.rpm instead that's 
his choice?

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