YUM Downgrade Basic Usage

This is quick tip, howto downgrade packages using YUM (example) on Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat (RHEL). This works simply with yum downgrade command and is very usefull when package(s) downgrade is needed some reason.

YUM Downgrade Basic Usage

Downgrade is very straightforward when package have not any dependencies, which affect the downgrade.
YUM Downgrade Single Package

[root@legion ~]#yum downgrade package

[root@legion ~]#yum downgrade thunderbird

Setting up Downgrade Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package thunderbird.x86_64 0:17.0.3-1.el6.centos will be a downgrade
---> Package thunderbird.x86_64 0:17.0.3-2.el6.centos will be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package           Arch         Version                     Repository     Size
================================================================================
Downgrading:
 thunderbird       x86_64       17.0.3-1.el6.centos         updates        38 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Downgrade     1 Package(s)

Total download size: 38 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:

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