Fedora 7 - yum downgrade ???

[david walcroft]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 19:44 +0100, Patrick Derwael wrote:
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>> Hi list
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>> I got a problem while installing a rpm which needs exactly python 2.4
>> under Fedora 7, when the currently installed python version is 2.5.
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>> -         Is there a possibility to “yum downgrade” python 2.5 to
>> python 2.4 ?
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>> o       and how ?
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>> o       and how to prevent any further upgrade to 2.5 ?
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>> -         Is it possible to have the two versions 2.4 and 2.5
>> installed at the same time ?
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>> o       and how ?
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>> Cheers 
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> I have the same problem. I don't think yum will tolerate two versions
> but using rpm itself it is probably possible (at least I think it is)
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I had this problem,it was caused by dependencies, I downloaded them and it
fixed the problem.As for installing Python 2.4,it will not work as there 
are to many
dependencies (30 +) to install [dependency hell]

david