Is there a safe or easy downgrade FC5 > FC4??

Ben Stringer ben at burbong.com
Sun Jun 18 03:13:44 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 17:46 -0400, Beartooth wrote:
> I'm getting negligible use out of what ought to be my main machine,
> because I can't get it to display a Gnome desktop; and KDE with Gnome
> Panels and Gnome apps just gives me dangerous blood pressure. (It's fine
> for them as likes it, no doubt, but it's like some other GUIs -- every
> time I touch it, I dislike it more, alas!)
> 
> This machine was doing perfectly fine with FC4. In fact, it did fine with
> FC5 -- at first. Then I went and tried out pup and pirut, and must have
> uninstalled something I shouldn't have -- and can't find again.

For future reference, there is a cronjob that maintains a list of
installed rpms, in /var/log/rpmpkgs, rpmpkgs.1 etc. Doing a diff between
these files can show you what packages were installed, removed or
upgraded in the period between the cron runs. Probably only good for a
few weeks back though, as logrotate will only keep 5 or so versions.

Cheers, Ben




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