[Q] how to make RPM install old driver??

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Sun Dec 5 08:46:14 UTC 2004


On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 10:04:25 +0200, Karasik, Vitaly wrote:

> rpm  -i --force your_package.rpm

No. rpm -ivh --oldpackage ...
 
Notice that --force also is an alias for

  --replacepkgs --replacefiles --oldpackage

so it is dangerous to use, because it would overwrite existing files
without confirmation/warning.

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