On Dec 9, 2007 11:07 PM, Tom Poe <tompoe@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I want to reinstall fresh, after inadvertently deleting some files from > two packages: jacktrip and qjackctl. System still shows rpms present, > so it seemed reasonable to try: > rpm -e jacktrip and then running # yum install *jacktrip* > but, > when I ran: > # rpm -q qjackctl > qjackctl-0.2.22-2.fc6.ccrma > then, rpm -e qjackctl, it balked. > # rpm -e qjackctl > error: Failed dependencies: > qjackctl is needed by (installed) > planetccrma-apps-2007.05.10-1.fc6.ccrma.i386 > > Do I need to backtrack through all of the apps and dependencies? Is > there an easier way to get yum to reinstall qjackctl as a single package? > Happy Holidays, Tom Consider whether or not to use the --oldpackage rpm option or one of its friends when re-installing the rpm in question. John
