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Re: Can't upgrade to pam-0.50-21.i386.rpm

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BORG)
Sun Nov 3 15:34:07 1996

Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 12:31:34 -0800
From: BORG <"vladimip "@iceonline.com>
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Jeremie Kass wrote:
......
> [root@kitch2 upgrades]# rpm -U pam-0.50-21.i386.rpm
> error: pam-0.50-21.i386.rpm cannot be installed

Do this:

rpm -U --force pam-x.x.x.rpm

if it still complains, do this:

rpm -U --force --nodeps pam-x.x.x.rpm

Works flawlessly.  :)

(substitute my x.x.x for your numbers)

Cheers,

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