Sometimes, you may need to have a certain version of a package installed on your system to conform to a certain requirement. In this article, we are going to see how we can install specific versions of packages using yum package manager in Centos & RHEL 7. First, we need to know the available versions for a particular package.
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Check available versions
Login as root and run the command below
# yum --showduplicates list
In this example, we are going to list the available versions of samba in your enabled repositories for RHEL 7 system.
yum --showduplicates list samba
Sample Output
Loaded plugins: amazon-id, rhui-lb, search-disabled-repos Available Packages samba.x86_64 4.1.1-31.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.1.1-33.el7_0 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.1.1-35.el7_0 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.1.1-37.el7_0 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.1.1-38.el7_0 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.1.12-21.el7_1 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.1.12-23.el7_1 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.1.12-24.el7_1 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.2.3-10.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.2.3-11.el7_2 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.2.3-12.el7_2 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.2.10-6.el7_2 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.2.10-6.2.el7_2 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.2.10-7.el7_2 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.4.4-9.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.4.4-12.el7_3 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.4.4-13.el7_3 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.4.4-14.el7_3 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.6.2-8.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.6.2-10.el7_4 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.6.2-11.el7_4 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases samba.x86_64 4.6.2-12.el7_4 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases
Since Yum uses the RPM package manager for handling packages, the package names are based on the RPM package label format.
In the above example, the first column indicates the package name & it's architecture and the second column shows the version of the package. As you'll also notice, the latest package is the one located at the bottom of the list.
In this case, samba-4.6.2-12 is the latest package.
Install a Specific version of a package
Now we can proceed and install any version of the samba package. To do this, run we are going to append the version of the package at the end. i.e
yum install <packagename> <version>
To install the latest version which is 4.6.2-12 according to our output as displayed earlier, run the command below
yum install samba-4.6.2-12
If you want to be more specific, you can include the version release as shown
yum install samba-4.6.2-12.el7_4
Sample Output
--> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ======================================================================================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ======================================================================================================================================================================== Installing: samba x86_64 4.6.2-12.el7_4 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 633 k Installing for dependencies: avahi-libs x86_64 0.6.31-17.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 61 k cups-libs x86_64 1:1.6.3-29.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 356 k libldb x86_64 1.1.29-1.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 128 k libtalloc x86_64 2.1.9-1.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 33 k libtdb x86_64 1.3.12-2.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 47 k libtevent x86_64 0.9.31-1.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 36 k libwbclient x86_64 4.6.2-12.el7_4 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 105 k pytalloc x86_64 2.1.9-1.el7 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 16 k samba-client-libs x86_64 4.6.2-12.el7_4 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 4.7 M samba-common noarch 4.6.2-12.el7_4 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 198 k samba-common-libs x86_64 4.6.2-12.el7_4 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 164 k samba-common-tools x86_64 4.6.2-12.el7_4 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 456 k samba-libs x86_64 4.6.2-12.el7_4 rhui-REGION-rhel-server-releases 265 k Transaction Summary ======================================================================================================================================================================== Install 1 Package (+13 Dependent packages) Total download size: 7.2 M Installed size: 24 M Is this ok [y/d/N]:
Installation complete
Installed: samba.x86_64 0:4.6.2-12.el7_4 Dependency Installed: avahi-libs.x86_64 0:0.6.31-17.el7 cups-libs.x86_64 1:1.6.3-29.el7 libldb.x86_64 0:1.1.29-1.el7 libtalloc.x86_64 0:2.1.9-1.el7 libtdb.x86_64 0:1.3.12-2.el7 libtevent.x86_64 0:0.9.31-1.el7 libwbclient.x86_64 0:4.6.2-12.el7_4 pytalloc.x86_64 0:2.1.9-1.el7 samba-client-libs.x86_64 0:4.6.2-12.el7_4 samba-common.noarch 0:4.6.2-12.el7_4 samba-common-libs.x86_64 0:4.6.2-12.el7_4 samba-common-tools.x86_64 0:4.6.2-12.el7_4 samba-libs.x86_64 0:4.6.2-12.el7_4 Complete!
Note: Exclude package in the repo file otherwise for next yum update it will install the latest version
To verify it's installation run
rpm -qa | grep samba
samba-common-4.6.2-12.el7_4.noarch samba-client-libs-4.6.2-12.el7_4.x86_64 samba-libs-4.6.2-12.el7_4.x86_64 samba-4.6.2-12.el7_4.x86_64 samba-common-libs-4.6.2-12.el7_4.x86_64 samba-common-tools-4.6.2-12.el7_4.x86_64
We hope this article has been insightful to you and you'll be more comfortable in installing specific versions of packages using Yum in your system. Feel free to get in touch and ask any questions. Thank you for your time.
