Can one force yum to install something that's already installed?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 5 09:51:09 UTC 2008
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.
yum 3.2-11 (in Rawhide) has a reinstall option but the latest yum in
Fedora 8 doesn't. You could file a RFE and request an update if it is
not already done.
Rahul
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