On Tuesday 11 November 2008 10:00:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > so what is a correct way of getting a back level of something ? > > There isn't a correct way. Every time you try to down rev > a different package, a different kind of hammer will be needed > and your system is likely to break in a different way. > > > > Also what Linux distro are you using and what release? > > > > Centos > > That uses RPM right? Does it have any decent package > management stuff built on top of RPM? Like Yum?
rpm -Uvh --force previous-package-version.rpm RTBM on rpm. >> rrdtool: /usr/bin/rrdtool /usr/share/rrdtool >/usr/share/man/man1/rrdtool.1.gz >> >> however, I need to install a backlevel rrdtool > Regardless of which distro or distro version you are using, replacing > the distro installed package with something you compile yourself is > almost always a bad idea, especially when you are downgrading Do qualify your assertion (eg if you are utterly clueless then ...) because otherwise the advice is. well um, um, not useful James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
