OMG - GONE! WHAT THE F!!!

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I wanted to install master-pdf-editor-5.3.16-1.x86_64 Alongside master-pdf-editor-4.3.89-1.x86_64

Looking at the install of master-pdf-editor-4.3.89-1.x86_64 it all seemed fairly self contained in /opt/masterpdfeditor4 and what was under /usr all seemed to be suffixed by a '4'.

But, I knew that master-pdf-editor-5.3.16-1.x86_64 was likely to remove master-pdf-editor-4.3.89-1.x86_64 (past experience).

So, I investigated the respective RPMs - no, scripts included that looked like they'd remove earlier versions...

So, I ran: $ rpm -qp --scripts master-pdf-editor-5.3.16_qt5.x86_64.rpm postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): #!/bin/sh set -e # Automatically added by dh_installmenu if [ -x "`which update-menus 2>/dev/null`" ]; then update-menus ; fi

# Automatically added by dh_installmime if [ -x "`which update-mime-database 2>/dev/null`" ]; then update-mime-database /usr/share/mime fi

ln -s /opt/master-pdf-editor-5/masterpdfeditor5 /usr/bin/masterpdfeditor5 postuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): #!/bin/sh set -e # Automatically added by dh_installmenu if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && [ -x "`which update-menus 2>/dev/null`" ]; then update-menus fi # End automatically added section

rm -f /usr/bin/masterpdfeditor5 $

Which didn't seem to indicate the removal of master-pdf-editor-4.3.89-1.x86_64.

However, I'm very suspicious... So, I investigated here: https://www.systutorials.com/1661/making-dnf-yum-not-update-certain-packages... And here: https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/conf_ref.html https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html# Under 'excludepkgs' And the man page, under 'excludepkgs'.

And so, wrote: exclude=master-pdf-editor-4.3.89-1* excludepkgs=master-pdf-editor-4.3.89-1* To /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

And then ran 'dnf install ./master-pdf-editor-5.3.16_qt5.x86_64.rpm'

AND WHAT THE FRIGGING HELL HAPPENED??!!!

YUP, YOU GUEST IT master-pdf-editor-4.3.89-1.x86_64 GOT CLOBBERED!!!

So, what the f' do I have to do to prevent master-pdf-editor-4.3.89-1.x86_64 from getting clobbered when installing master-pdf-editor-5.3.16_qt5.x86_64.rpm

Thanks all M