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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