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?