On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:37:33 +0000 CLOSE Dave <Dave.Close@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Samuel Sieb wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 18:37:33 +0000 CLOSE Dave <Dave.Close@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> But for some reason, DNF thinks OpenOffice is > >> dependent on Thunderbird, and deletes it! It certainly shouldn't > >> be dependent! > > > > The output from dnf would be useful. > > Here you go. (Repos fedora27 and updates27 are local mirrors of the > FC27 repos. > > # dnf --allowerasing --enablerepo=fedora27 --enablerepo=updates27 > downgrade thunderbird-52.9.1-1.fc27.x86_64 Run this as # dnf -x libreoffice\* --best --allowerasing --enablerepo=fedora27 --enablerepo=updates27 downgrade thunderbird-52.9.1-1.fc27.x86_64 and it should point to the dependency of libreoffice you want to downgrade that causes it to be erased. > Downgrading: > enchant x86_64 1:1.6.0-18.fc27 fedora27 > 61 k > enchant-devel x86_64 1:1.6.0-18.fc27 fedora27 > 17 k > enchant2 x86_64 2.2.3-4.fc27 updates27 > 58 k > hunspell x86_64 1.5.4-4.fc27 fedora27 > 328 k > hunspell-devel x86_64 1.5.4-4.fc27 fedora27 > 98 k > kf5-sonnet-core x86_64 5.48.0-2.fc27 updates27 > 167 k > kf5-sonnet-ui x86_64 5.48.0-2.fc27 updates27 > 152 k > link-grammar x86_64 5.5.1-4.fc27 updates27 > 2.1 M > lokalize x86_64 17.12.1-1.fc27 updates27 > 2.6 M > scribus x86_64 1.4.6-9.fc27 fedora27 > 21 M > thunderbird x86_64 52.9.1-1.fc27 updates27 > 79 M It is probably one of the other above packages that libreoffice has a later dependency on, say hunspell. In order to downgrade it, libreoffice has to be erased. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx