Friday, May 6, 2022

[SOLVED] Yum says "wandisco-git-release-6-1.noarch.rpm: does not update installed package."

Issue

I have Centos 6.7 and run this command

sudo yum install http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/6/git/x86_64/wandisco-git-release-6-1.noarch.rpm

And I got this output:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, post-transaction-actions
Setting up Install Process
wandisco-git-release-6-1.noarch.rpm                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | 4.5 kB     00:00     
Examining /var/tmp/yum-root-UthqQc/wandisco-git-release-6-1.noarch.rpm: wandisco-git-release-6-1.noarch
/var/tmp/yum-root-UthqQc/wandisco-git-release-6-1.noarch.rpm: does not update installed package.
Error: Nothing to do

This package simply has an .repo file in /etc/yum.repo.d/. Why does yum refuse to install it?


Solution

Because apparently the package wandisco-git-release is already installed, but with a higher version than 6-1.

There are two ways from here:

  • find a more recent version of wandisco-git-release if you need to upgrade
  • force a downgrade: yum downgrade http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/6/git/x86_64/wandisco-git-release-6-1.noarch.rpm


Answered By - Chris Maes
Answer Checked By - Marie Seifert (WPSolving Admin)
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