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help regarding RPM
Helo I have base system 4.0.0.0 installed.
I m using linux operating system. right now I have following packages are installed ADMIN-4.0.0.0 DBASE-4.0.0.0 I want to make my system 4.1.0.0 for this I upgrade the above packages to ADMIN-4.1.0.0 and DBASE-4.1.0.0 now I want that when Uninstall 4.1.0.0 then I got the my base system as 4.0.0.0. how do I achieve this. If I erase the upgraded above packages then how i got the original packages Regards, Amit |
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man pages are best friend in *NIX
To help you i just looked in "man rpm" and found "--oldpackage" option provides you such functionality. Following sequence works for me
[root@sumit /root]# rpm -q procps procps-2.0.11-7 [root@sumit /root]# rpm -U procps-2.0.6-5.i386.rpm warning: procps-2.0.6-5.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e package procps-2.0.11-7 (which is newer than procps-2.0.6-5) is already installed [root@sumit /root]# rpm -U --oldpackage procps-2.0.6-5.i386.rpm warning: procps-2.0.6-5.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID db42a60e [root@sumit /root]# |
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