How to downgrade Xorg?

[ffi]

Yesterday I tried installing KDE 3.5.2 from MDE but that didn´t go very well. I´m left with a working Mandriva version of 3.5.1 of KDE but my Xorg somehow ¨updated¨ to mde.

 

 

Now I can´t select packages anymore because packages seem to depend on older versions of xorg. But I can´t seem to go back because of this error without seemingly uninstalling just about everything.

Edited April 9, 2006 by ffi

[arctic]

Under fedora, you have to download the old X package and then launch a

 

rpm -Uvh --allfiles --oldpackage --replacefiles --replacepkgs --repackage *.rpm

 

with the new package for Xorg. I don't know if it will work in Mandriva, too, but maybe it will. Maybe someone else knows some trick.

[ffi]

I tried for all the packages which had mde in their name and everything seems okay, I rebooted and I´m back in KDE and even GLX seems to be working....

 

urpmi --allow-force --allow-nodeps XXXX

[theYinYeti]

Once I had to downgrade XOrg, and I couldn't do it with urpmi. However, doing it with Smart worked fine.

 

Yves.

[ffi]

I downloaded smart, it looks a bit like synaptic but still needs a lot of work in th GUI bit. Is it better (safer) than URPMI?

[theYinYeti]

As I see it, Smart is more versatile than urpmi, but I prefer urpmi for the presentation and the speed.

Both do the job (the same job, BTW) fine.

 

Yves.