Can one force yum to install something that's already installed?

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• From: Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:35:18 +0000
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Is there any way to force yum to re-install a package that has got
corrupted (well, *may* have got corrupted)?

Obviously I could do:-

    yum remove <package>
    yum install <package>

but it seems like there ought to be an easier way to do it.

-- 
Chris Green

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