Would this do it? Download rpm you want to install. yum erase package #to get rid of the old one. this will be a problem if it is too low level hence no -y, in case you need to chicken out. Or you could always make a list of things that got uninstalled along with it and reinstall them after. Then yum localinstall new.package.rpm localinstall installs an rpm located on the local host instead of the repository so that yum's database stays up to date/knows about it. yum will also use the repositories to satisfy any missing dependencies. This is the best way to install packages that are not yet in the repositories - get or make a binary rpm (from source rpm or maybe from the zip file if you are an rpm wiz), then use localinstall to install it. I saw a nice trick in a linux cookbook or server hacks book that showed a script that basically audited your system for libraries and binaries that were not known about by rpm and yum and built an empty rpm that just updated the dependencies and clued in the databases about the orphans. Personally, I try hard to avoid installing anything without yum, so I haven't actually transcribed the script (it was long). Dave On 10/20/07, Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx> 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.
