On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Brett Viren <[email protected]> wrote: > This is probably a FAQ but I couldn't find the answer. > > I want to install gcc43 packages on SL 5.3 64bit so I do: > > yum install gcc43 gcc43-c++ gcc43-gfortran > > But yum ignores my command and says that "gcc43 is obsoleted by gcc44" > and instead installs gcc44! Complete insolence. > > How can I tell yum to actually do what I tell it to do?
You could do it by telling yum to ignore the gcc44 packages. exclude=gcc44 in your yum.conf but its probably worth mentioning that gcc43 is no longer present upstream so there will of course be no updates for it. > > Thanks, > -Brett. > -- Steve Traylen
