{"id":1306,"date":"2018-07-07T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chewett.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2018-07-01T15:03:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T14:03:51","slug":"showing-other-installable-versions-of-packages-on-fedora-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chewett.co.uk\/blog\/1306\/showing-other-installable-versions-of-packages-on-fedora-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Showing other installable versions of packages on Fedora 28"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today I write about how you can list all installable versions of a package in Fedora.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Why you might want to see different versions of a package<\/h2>\n

While the latest version of a package is normally what you want to install there may be times when you want to install an older one.<\/p>\n

In some instances, there may be a bug with the latest installed package which requires you to install an earlier version. In Fedora especially where the latest and greatest packages are available to users this may mean a package might not entirely work.<\/p>\n

Or a new version of the package may have modified or removed a feature you require from the package. Meaning that you need to ensure you load up the older more useful version.<\/p>\n

In these events, you are able to install an earlier version of the package to use and resolve these issues.<\/p>\n

Viewing all available versions of a package<\/h2>\n

To view all versions of packages available you can run the following command.<\/p>\n

dnf --showduplicates list <package name><\/pre>\n
This will display the versions available for that package. For example when I run this on the firefox<\/code> package I see:<\/p>\n
Available Packages\r\nfirefox.x86_64 59.0.2-1.fc28 fedora\r\nfirefox.x86_64 61.0-4.fc28 updates<\/pre>\n
Using this information you can install any version of a package you wish.<\/p>\n
If you want to see what version is available in a different version of Fedora you can use the --release<\/code> flag.<\/p>\n
This should help you find older versions of the packages you use if required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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