On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 00:04 +0000, Darren Foster wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 16:59 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > rpm -ivh --force > > ftp://ftp.net.usf.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386//os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm > > Craig, > > Your a star Thank-you the force worked. > > Much appreciate this. Its been bugging me for a few days now that yum > wouldnt work. ---- you have to appreciate that the '--force' option on rpm commands is entirely the wrong thing to do 99% of the time. This just happened to be the 1 out of 100. Forget that the option exists. Craig