[Mageia-discuss] Downgrade package

[Claire Robinson]

On 22/09/12 17:16, Michael Hill wrote:
> On Sep 22, 2012 12:00 PM, "Claire Robinson" <eeeemail at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 22/09/12 15:03, Michael Hill wrote:
>>> All I need to downgrade a package in Mageia is rpm and a previous
> version
>>> of the package?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>
>> Hi Mike
>>
>> You can use rpm -e --nodeps <package> to remove a single one without
>> removing things which depend on it. You can then install the older
>> version in the usual way.
> 
> Thanks, Claire. To have the previous version I'd have needed to have
> activated it in my urpmi settings, wouldn't I? Is there someplace I can
> look for an earlier version of a package?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 

You can use urpmi --media Release <package> to install it from the
Release medias. You can also do similar with Updates.

Sometimes there will be two or more versions in Updates though, so if
you need a specific version you can download it from the mirror manually
with a browser or wget and install with urpmi path/to/<package>.

For example urpmi ./<package>

Claire