Thanks Bruno,

I have more or less 27 ".fc9" packages installed in my Fedora 8,
and the command "rpm -Uvh --oldpackage" will help (I made a test
and it worked very well!!).

Germán.


On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 17:19:43 -0300,
>  Germán Racca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > But if I try to remove those new versions (.fc9) in order to
> > install the corresponding ones (.fc8) later, the program
> > wants to remove nearly everything because of the dependencies.
>
> Note that F9 can have packages with an fc8 release if an f8 package
> didn't need to be rebuilt for f9.
>
> > How can remove those ".fc9" packages and install the ".fc8" packages
> > without having to remove all the dependencies?
>
> You can use the --oldpackage option on rpm. This can still be blocked by
> version dependencies. If you have a lot of F9 packages installed this may
> be a pain to deal with (though in that case you might double check that
> you aren't really running F9).
>
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