On Sunday 23 May 2010 15:31:43 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 23 May 2010 12:31:10 Colin J Thomson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I don't like to see people struggle hence my comment(s) to use *Smart* > > As we do a lot of testing here it is very very easy to downgrade using > > its gui, here is an example from the CLI: > > > > *Note*: I use the download option as my packages are not kept.. must > > change that :) I start by just downloading qt-4.6* > > > > [g6avk at localhost ~]$ sudo smart download qt-4.6* > > Loading cache... > > Updating cache... > > ##################### [100%] > > Fetching packages... > > -> http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde- > > redhat/fedora/13/i386/testing/RPMS/qt-4.6.2-19.fc13.i686.rpm > > qt-4.6.2-19.fc13.i686.rpm > > ##################### [100%] > > > > [g6avk at localhost ~]$ sudo smart install *qt-4.6* > > Loading cache... > > Updating cache... > > ##################### [100%] > > > > Computing transaction... > > > > Downgrading packages (4): > > qt-1:4.6.2-19.fc13 at i686 qt-mysql-1:4.6.2-19.fc13 at i686 > > qt-sqlite-1:4.6.2-19.fc13 at i686 qt-x11-1:4.6.2-19.fc13 at i686 > > > > Removing packages (2): > > qt-assistant-adp-4.6.2-1.fc13 at i686 > > qt-webkit-1:4.7.0-0.13.beta1.fc13.jit at i686 > > > > 20.9MB of package files are needed. 15.6MB will be freed. > > > > Confirm changes? (Y/n): y > > > > Fetching packages... > > <Snip> > Thanks for that. I installed smart, but couldn't see how to do it from the > gui, and time being very short at the moment, I hadn't researched > command-line use. I'll keep this for reference, next time I have a > problem :-) OK FYI, if you have all the correct repo's enabled, you should see all the packages available and the ones you have installed in the GUI, just mark the previous package in the list to install and Smart will do its stuff :) Glad you have managed to sort it all out now.. Colin -- Fedora release 13 (Goddard) Registered Linux user number #342953
