Re: [F25] getting an old kernel-header rpm

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On 07/22/17 13:11, Sherman Grunewagen wrote:
> On 07/21/2017 07:48 AM, stan wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:37:08 -0700
>> Sherman Grunewagen <sugarwagon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone tell me how to get kernel-headers-4.11.8-200.fc25.x86_64 ?
>>> Why? Long story.  Short version: my Intel 8265 wireless card is
>>> unstable with kernel-4.11.9 and 4.11.10.  With 4.11.8 it is not.  But
>>> since I have 4.11.10 installed on my system (with 8, and 9) the
>>> kernel-headers are also at 4.11.10.
>>>
>>> Vmware workstation needs to build its modules under 4.11.8 which I'm
>>> now running. But it can't w/o the matching kernel-headers!
>>>
>>> Thus my question.  Or is there a better way?
>>
>> You can find them at koji, download them for your architecture, and then
>> downgrade using dnf,
>> dnf -C downgrade ./[header file name]
>>
>> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=913370
>>
>> I recall reading that a 4.12 stable kernel is going to find its way
>> into F25, perhaps that will fix your issue.
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>
> Thanks, Stan. When I tried to remove kernel-headers-4.11.10-200,
> dnf said it wanted to remove a lot of other packages.  Of course I said "no".
> If I downgrade the headers to 4.11.8, will it also need to downgrade all those other
> packages?  (I've never downgraded anything.)
>
>

There will be only one kernel-headers package on your system and is normally updated
each time the kernel gets updated. 

So, if you've downloaded the 4.11.8 kernel-headers you should just be able to do....

dnf erase kernel-headers

followed by

dnf install ./kernel-headers-whatever.rpm



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