On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 23:15 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > For some reason I do not understand, > some of the files in an rpm/yum package (libXmu) are missing. > I could download the rpm again, and run "rpm -Uvh ...". > I cannot run "yum remove", as this would remove 157 packages. > > Is there any command to force a yum install, > even if the package in question is already installed? You can't do it using yum but if you download the package you can reinstall it using rpm: # rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs /path/to/some.rpm Paul.