How to erase updates?

[Karl Larsen]

Justin W wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>> Ashley Pritchard wrote:
>>> you use the command "rpm -e {the package you want to uninstall}" this 
>>> will uninstall any pakage you want to uninstall. you can also use the 
>>> add & remove utility as well to remove the programs that you do not 
>>> want.
>>> On 8/7/07, *Karl Larsen* <k5di at zianet.com <mailto:k5di at zianet.com>> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>            I have a list from yum.log of the rpm files I want to 
>>> remove so
>>>     printing will work again. I tried yum remove but it wants to 
>>> remove all
>>>     of the thing not just the update.
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>>
>>     I get this when I use your method. It doesn't work!
>>
>> Aug 06 13:54:19 Updated: udev.i386 113-8.fc7
>> Aug 06 13:55:13 Updated: pidgin.i386 2.1.0-1.fc7
>> Aug 06 13:55:14 Updated: strace.i386 4.5.16-1.fc7
>> Aug 06 13:55:21 Updated: openssl-devel.i386 0.9.8b-14.fc7
>> [root at k5di log]# rpm -e udev.i386 113-8.fc7
>> error: package 113-8.fc7 is not installed
>> [root at k5di log]# rpm -qi udev.i386 113-8.fc7
>> Name        : udev                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
>> Version     : 113                               Vendor: Fedora Project
>> Release     : 8.fc7                         Build Date: Mon 30 Jul 
>> 2007 10:37:09 AM MDT
>> Install Date: Mon 06 Aug 2007 01:54:18 PM MDT      Build Host: 
>> xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com
>> Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: 
>> udev-113-8.fc7.src.rpm
>> Size        : 769219                           License: GPL
>> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Mon 06 Aug 2007 09:49:29 AM MDT, Key ID 
>> b44269d04f2a6fd2
>> Packager    : Fedora Project
>> URL         : http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/
>> Summary     : A userspace implementation of devfs
>> Description :
>> The udev package contains an implementation of devfs in
>> userspace using sysfs and netlink.
>> package 113-8.fc7 is not installed
>> [root at k5di log]#
>>
>>
> The output format from the yum logs are different from the package name 
> that you need to pass to RPM. The version string should be separated 
> from the package name by a dash, and the i386 shouldn't be needed 
> (unless you're running multilib).  Your command should be more like:
> 
> rpm -e udev-113-8.fc7
> 
> That should match the output you would find if you were to query RPM 
> just by package name and not by package name + version string. On my 
> machine:
> 
> [justin at ra ~]$ rpm -q udev
> udev-095-17.fc6
> 
> 
> Justin W
> 
	I'm sorry Justin you simply do not understand. I have to replace the 
existing updated rpm with an older one. hard to do!


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