How to lock a package or software in RedHat.

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# For RHEL 5
yum install yum-versionlock
# For RHEL 6 and 7
yum install yum-plugin-versionlock
# For RHEL 8 and 9
yum install python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock

Locking a package

<pre lang="bash">
yum versionlock gcc-*

List locked packages

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yum versionlock list