Printing now works again

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Tue Aug 7 23:21:40 UTC 2007


Matthew J. Roth wrote:
> The correct syntax for allowing an upgrade to replace a newer package 
> with an older one (ie. downgrading) is to use the "--oldpackage" option, 
> as follows:
> 
> rpm -Uvh --oldpackage PACKAGE_FILE.rpm
> 
> A system with packages managed via the "--force" and "--nodeps" options 
> to rpm is not likely to be very stable.  Please stop poisoning the well.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Matthew Roth
> InterMedia Marketing Solutions
> Software Engineer and Systems Developer
> 
	I have Maximum RPM but forget the details of --oldpackage and doing it 
my way is after I know the dependancies will go away after both old 
rpm's are there.

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.




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