How to recover an executable?

[James Wilkinson]

Craig White wrote:
> rpm -ivh --force \
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/postfix-2.2.2-2.i386.rpm

Use --oldpackage , not --force . The --force option is like taking a
hammer to your RPM database. You'll get the package installed, but you
might break the database at the same time. --oldpackage just does what
you need it to do in this case.

And I believe -Uvh or -Fvh would be needed, since postfix is already
installed.

Hope this helps,

James.

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