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Re: No, yum, gcc43 not gcc44
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Steve Traylen <[log in to unmask]>
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Steve Traylen <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:38:45 +0100
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Brett Viren <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This is probably a FAQ but I couldn't find the answer.
>
> I want to install gcc43 packages on SL 5.3 64bit so I do:
>
>  yum install gcc43 gcc43-c++ gcc43-gfortran
>
> But yum ignores my command and says that "gcc43 is obsoleted by gcc44"
> and instead installs gcc44!  Complete insolence.
>
> How can I tell yum to actually do what I tell it to do?

You could do it by telling yum to ignore the gcc44 packages.

exclude=gcc44

in your yum.conf but its probably worth mentioning that gcc43 is no longer
present upstream so there will of course be no updates for it.

>
> Thanks,
> -Brett.
>











-- 
Steve Traylen

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