Re: Is there any way to 'force' a yum install/update?

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On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 09:41:15PM +0630, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
>> Is there any way to force a yum install or update to work even when it
>> normally fails because of some errors?
>> I am trying to install a 32-bit version of a library on a 64-bit
>> system and it fails only because the manual pages conflict with the
>> already installed 64-bit library manual pages.  Since they're probably
>> the same manual pages (and anyway I'm not going to read them) is there
>> any way I can tell yum to ignore the errors and install anyway?
>
> Short answer: No.
>
> You can force install using RPM but that should be avoided. If there are 
> packaging issues, file a bug report and get it fixed.
>
To be specific I wanted a 32-bit perl as well as a 64-bit perl.

It turned out that I needed to update the 64-bit perl first as it was
one verion older than the latest, once I'd done that the 32-bit perl
installed without problems.

-- 
Chris Green


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