Can one force yum to install something that's already installed?
Gilboa Davara
gilboad at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 10:17:16 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 09:35 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> Is there any way to force yum to re-install a package that has got
> corrupted (well, *may* have got corrupted)?
>
> Obviously I could do:-
>
> yum remove <package>
> yum install <package>
>
> but it seems like there ought to be an easier way to do it.
>
In F8 you'll have to manually download the offending package and
reinstall it by hand. (rpm -Uvh --force rpm_package.rpm)
- Gilboa
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