On 22/09/12 17:16, Michael Hill wrote: > On Sep 22, 2012 12:00 PM, "Claire Robinson" <[email protected]> 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
