On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 10:07, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
I do this every once in awhile. When in YaST you will the package shown in red. click on the check mark till turns into the "Z" symbol which tells YaST to install the package whether it is older, the same or newer. It is the equiv of --oldpackage. I think it will also sort out the dependencies as well.
I'm confused on my system when I get the 'Z' on a red item the caption says update.
Yes it will say that because of the limitation of the way that YaST was programmed. It will install the older program that is on the CD/DVD install disk. So it will downgrade as opposed to upgrade my system. And it will also include any dependencies or can a newer library still be used by an
Ken Schneider wrote: older package without hassle ie recompiling? My biggest fear is that, as I do not know how to compile and am really a mouse tickler, I do not want to install a later version of Mozilla or OOo, find it doesn't work and then be unable to point and click to un-install it so my system is left as though I had never installed the 'offending' app. Mozilla and OOo are the two most crucial at the moment as they are helping me look for and apply for employment, and I will not have that help destroyed. -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================