Centos - How to undo a package Installation - Yum 

Hi Friends,

Yesterday someone in my server, accidently updated libvirt packages while trying to install something else.

Puff !!!
All my VMs started failing on reboot
Identified that verions of libvirt and qemu does nt work anymore.

Ona  quick research learnt this

"YUM HISTORY UNDO <NUM>"

It is a life saver

I initially tried "yum downgrade" - but it usually failed in downgrading dependency.

So let me explain you the magic.


Step 1: Find the history

# yum history

Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
ID     | Login user               | Date and time    | Action(s)      | Altered
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     8 | root <root>              | 2011-10-03 14:40 | Install        |    1   
     7 | root <root>              | 2011-09-21 04:24 | Install        |    1 ##
     6 | root <root>              | 2011-09-21 04:23 | Install        |    1 ##
     5 | root <root>              | 2011-09-16 13:35 | Install        |    1   
     4 | root <root>              | 2011-09-16 13:33 | Erase          |    1   
     3 | root <root>              | 2011-09-14 14:36 | Install        |    1   
     2 | root <root>              | 2011-09-12 15:48 | I, U           |   80   
     1 | System <unset>           | 2011-09-12 14:57 | Install        | 1025  

Step 2: Revert the change

# yum history undo 8

Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, subscription-manager
Updating Red Hat repositories.
Undoing transaction 8, from Mon Oct  3 14:40:01 2011
    Install screen-4.0.3-16.el6.i686
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package screen.i686 0:4.0.3-16.el6 will be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================
 Package          Arch       Version            Repository              Size
================================================================================
Removing:
 screen           i686       4.0.3-16.el6       @rhel-6-server-rpms     783 k

<snip>

Removed:
  screen.i686 0:4.0.3-16.el6
Complete!

Hope this helps someone. Ola ... have a great day