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How to use yum/dnf to downgrade or rollback some package updates? - Red Hat Customer Portal
May 1, 2025 - Thus, downgrading a system to minor version (ex: RHEL8.5 to RHEL8.4 or RHEL7.9 to RHEL7.8) is not recommended as this might leave the system in an undesired state. If this operation is attempted, it is strongly recommended to only do so with working system backups in place. In general, use the yum ...
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How to Downgrade RHEL/CentOS to Previous Minor Release
January 8, 2019 - In this article, we will describe how to do downgrade RHEL or CentOS version to previous minor version such as from RHEL/or CentOS 7.6 to 7.5.
RedHat 8.9 back to 8.8
There is no supported way to downgrade a minor release. You'll have to restore from a backup if you have it. If you do restore from a backup, you'll have to version lock the system from upgrading past RHEL 8.8: subscription-manager release --set 8.8 This of course assumes you have an EUS subscription which will allow you to stay at 8.8 and still get security updates. Otherwise, if you version lock to 8.8 without an EUS subscription, you won't receive any more updates. More on reddit.com
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November 29, 2023Can I roll back the kernel from 8.1 back to the one that was shipped in 8.0? Should I?
Yes you can... should you is a different story.
yum downgrade kernel
Should do it.
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How to use yum history to roll back an update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux? - Red Hat Customer Portal
October 16, 2025 - Use the yum history option for small update rollbacks. If you decide to proceed with rollback, rather then reinstall, please start with following documentation. RHEL 6 Deployment Guide - 8.3.3.
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CentOS/RHEL Use yum Command To Downgrade or Rollback Updates - nixCraft
August 19, 2023 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x/8.x/9.x+ including clones such as Oracle/Alama/Rocky Linux and CentOS Stream · The basic syntax is: # yum downgrade package1 # yum downgrade package1 package2 This syntax also works on a CentOS/RHEL v6.x/7.x but I recommend the following yum history method for all users.
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How To Install A Specific Kernel Version Or Downgrade The Kernel - Red Hat Customer Portal
To help identify the specific name of a kernel package to downgrade to, YUM can list all the versiosn of a packages, both installed and available for installation; ... # yum list kernel --show-duplicates Loaded plugins: product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager Installed Packages kernel.x86_64 3.10.0-1160.el7 @anaconda/7.9 kernel.x86_64 3.10.0-1160.118.1.el7 @rhel...
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How To Revert OS Patching On CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 | ITzGeek
November 7, 2019 - In this post, we will see the steps to revert OS patching on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8. The yum history command will list all activities you did with yum command, including the OS patching. ... ID 4: OS patching (Command line: update) as it has (I)nstall and (U)pdate actions of 55 packages. ID 3: Kernel update (Command line: update -y kernel) (I)nstall action of 3 packages
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November 29, 2023 -
So an app team in my org needs their recently updated to 8.9 systems, permanently rolled back to 8.8. What's the best way to perform this rollback so the systems is back on 8.8 every time it boots, etc.?
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There is no supported way to downgrade a minor release. You'll have to restore from a backup if you have it. If you do restore from a backup, you'll have to version lock the system from upgrading past RHEL 8.8: subscription-manager release --set 8.8 This of course assumes you have an EUS subscription which will allow you to stay at 8.8 and still get security updates. Otherwise, if you version lock to 8.8 without an EUS subscription, you won't receive any more updates.
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dnf history undo __ Then there is an option to freeze release. If you use Satellite, create its own content view for 8.8 EUS
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How to Downgrade RHEL/CentOS to Previous Minor Release - Fedingo
July 23, 2025 - Once the kernel installation is complete, you need to reboot your system to apply changes. Next, run the yum downgrade command to downgrade your RHEL/CentOS. It will downgrade your Linux to the immediate minor version.
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r/CentOS on Reddit: Can I roll back the kernel from 8.1 back to the one that was shipped in 8.0? Should I?
January 19, 2020 -
Ouch. The update to 8.1 broke a third-party kernel module that had been running fine in 8.0, but apparently is incompatible with the 4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64 kernel. The developer distributes the kernel module via an .rpm that installs to DKMS.
Is it possible in 8.1 to roll back to the kernel from 8.0? Is that advisable?
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 is just Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 with all updates rolled into it. "Downgrading" would mean going to 5.x. If something isn't "certified" for RHEL 6.4 it's just lagging behind, or perhaps it is incompatible with a specific update (if so, I'd be rather suspicious of a package that breaks with Red Hat's very conservative package update policy).
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RedHat says the correct solution is to install the appropriate kernel version, then downgrade to the previous minor release:
How to downgrade kernel and redhat-release to a previous minor version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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# yum list kernel-2.6.32-358*
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kernel.x86_64 2.6.32-358.23.2.el6 rhel-6.2-server-for-rhs-2.0-rpms
# yum install kernel-2.6.32-358.23.2.el6
# Reboot
# yum downgrade redhat-release
Confirm the downgrade:
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago)
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Downgrade kernel in RHEL8 – FlashGrid Help Center
November 23, 2025 - kernel-devel kernel-core kernel-modules kernel-headers kernel-tools kernel-tools-libs kernel-modules-extra · For example, if you are downgrading to kernel-4.18.0-513.9.1.el8_9.x86_64, you need to have:
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Actually, downgrade wouldn't work for kernel. The right command would be localinstall:
#yum localinstall ./kernel....rpm
If you have more then 5 kernels yum will delete oldest.
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rpm -ivh <kernel.rpm> --oldpackage
does the job in centos
This will install your kernel, now make sure the grub entries are proper and then you can reboot and boot into this kernal
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I have to install Stornex 5 and it only support RHE 7.2 with kernel 3.10.0-327.el7. The box I recieved was installed with 3.10.0.-514.el7 Can you tell me how i can downgrade it or, reinstall it from scratch ?
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How to downgrade kernel and redhat-release to a previous minor version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux | MyBlog
March 11, 2015 - # yum list kernel-2.6.32-358* … kernel.x86_64 2.6.32-358.23.2.el6 rhel-6.2-server-for-rhs-2.0-rpms · 3. Install the kernel package version you identified. Use yum install kernel-<version> as shown in the following example: ... 5. Downgrade ...
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August 13, 2021 - RHEL All Versions · Step1: Determine the last yum update history : #yum history · Step2: #yum history undo <sequence number> Warning: Rollback or downgrade of the following packages is unsupported as the packages themselves, and dependencies, either assume an update-only or install-only process: dbus · kernel ·
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How to properly update kernel in RHEL/CentOS 7/8 Linux | GoLinuxCloud
January 2, 2024 - Now let us try to perform the same task using yum command. With yum you can either use "yum install" or "yum update" to update kernel, either way yum will understand that you are trying to update kernel hence it will perform "install" action.
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Downgrade kernel version with yum - Red Hat - Unix Linux Community
October 19, 2017 - Dear all, Now I need to downgrade my current kernel to 2.6.12 I found some pages with Google, and they said that I can do it with yum, but there is not details information. How can I use yum to downgrade kernel versio…
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Change default kernel to boot in RHEL 8 | Easy guide
March 6, 2022 - I have run the # yum update -y to upgrade all the packages which include kernel. Right after completing the upgrade, took a reboot. But, while trying to start the application it failed and the application team requested to rollback only the kernel version. In such a scenario, let see how to set the old kernel version as default one in RHEL 7 and 8 based operating system.