Yum expert needed

[csa at dds.nl]

Quoting Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>:

>    On FC6 we have been experimenting with versions of gstream software
> to get back to the performance of the Volume Control that FC6 had
> before Updating. I have found that the proper software can be obtained
> by yum install gstream.
>
>    The problem is that the current rpm's loaded are of a later date. I
> want to load older rpm's on top of the ones on my computer now. Is
> there a way to do this?
>
> Karl
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Hi Karl,

You can install the older rpm's with rpm -ihv --oldpackage <rpm-name>  
and adding
exclude=<rpm-name> to yum.conf. Yum itself has no option to install  
older packages.

HTH

Cheers,

Chris