On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 12:41 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
This is all related to my struggles with Asterfax and libtiff.
I rpm -U to libtiff 3.8.2 and I am still having troubles. So I decided to go back to libtiff 3.6.1 (oh and libtiff-devel that seems to be a prerec).
So after a bit of playing that did not seem to do anything, I figured out to:
rpm -U --oldprogram libtiff-3.6.1-8.i386.rpm libtiff-devel-3.6.1-8.i386.rpm
and this seemed to work:
rpm -q libtiff libtiff-3.6.1-8
But now things seem to be even more 'broken' if possible.
Did I do the backleveling the right way?
How do I check?
What you did is correct ...
rpm -Uvh --oldprogram package_name1 package_name2
--------------- you can see what files are owned by a package with:
rpm -ql package_name
and you can verify a package with:
rpm -V package_name
(-V only shows output if something is not exactly as it should be ... see "man rpm" and look at the "VERIFY OPTIONS")