On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 12:41 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > This is all related to my struggles with Asterfax and libtiff. > > I rpm -U to libtiff 3.8.2 and I am still having troubles. So I decided > to go back to libtiff 3.6.1 (oh and libtiff-devel that seems to be a > prerec). > > So after a bit of playing that did not seem to do anything, I figured > out to: > > rpm -U --oldprogram libtiff-3.6.1-8.i386.rpm libtiff-devel-3.6.1-8.i386.rpm > > and this seemed to work: > > rpm -q libtiff > libtiff-3.6.1-8 > > > But now things seem to be even more 'broken' if possible. > > Did I do the backleveling the right way? > > How do I check? > > What you did is correct ... rpm -Uvh --oldprogram package_name1 package_name2 --------------- you can see what files are owned by a package with: rpm -ql package_name and you can verify a package with: rpm -V package_name (-V only shows output if something is not exactly as it should be ... see "man rpm" and look at the "VERIFY OPTIONS")
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