I would run

rpm -qa | grep slurm

This will tell you all the slurm packages you have on the system

On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 at 17:12, Ron Gould via slurm-users <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com> wrote:
I've read through the upgrade documentation a couple times and I've done some dry run stuff.

I have "slurmdbd" and "slurmctld" installed on the main head node. The instructions call for upgrading "slurmdbd" first. I'm trying to use the dry run options to `dnf` and `rpm` and I'm getting some messages. Perhaps I don't have the correct options specified to upgrade from 22.05.3 to 22.05.4.

It doesn't explicitly say "remove ${OldVersion} and install ${NewVersion}". I'm hesitant to remove the package out of fear the 22.05.4 version won't install.

Using `dnf`:
```
# dnf upgrade --assumeno --best --allowerasing ./slurm-slurmdbd-22.05.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
Dependencies resolved.
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Package                                              Arch                                         Version                                               Repository                                           Size
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Removing:
slurm-slurmdbd                                       x86_64                                       22.05.3-1.el7                                         @@commandline                                       2.4 M

Transaction Summary
===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Remove  1 Package

Freed space: 2.4 M
Operation aborted.
```

Using `rpm`:
```
# rpm --test --install --upgrade ./slurm-slurmdbd-22.05.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        slurm(x86-64) = 22.05.4-1.el7 is needed by slurm-slurmdbd-22.05.4-1.el7.x86_64
```

If I then tell it to install that dependency, I get:
```
# rpm --test --install --upgrade ./slurm-slurmdbd-22.05.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm ./slurm-22.05.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        slurm(x86-64) = 22.05.3-1.el7 is needed by (installed) slurm-perlapi-22.05.3-1.el7.x86_64
        slurm(x86-64) = 22.05.3-1.el7 is needed by (installed) slurm-contribs-22.05.3-1.el7.x86_64
        slurm(x86-64) = 22.05.3-1.el7 is needed by (installed) slurm-slurmd-22.05.3-1.el7.x86_64
        slurm(x86-64) = 22.05.3-1.el7 is needed by (installed) slurm-devel-22.05.3-1.el7.x86_64
        slurm(x86-64) = 22.05.3-1.el7 is needed by (installed) slurm-libpmi-22.05.3-1.el7.x86_64
        slurm(x86-64) = 22.05.3-1.el7 is needed by (installed) slurm-pam_slurm-22.05.3-1.el7.x86_64
        slurm(x86-64) = 22.05.3-1.el7 is needed by (installed) slurm-slurmctld-22.05.3-1.el7.x86_64
```

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