[97178] in RedHat Linux List
Re-installing RPM's, was Re: Kernel Problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Stearns)
Sun Nov 1 18:06:22 1998
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 18:09:37 -0500 (EST)
From: William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
cc: Genesis <genesis@omega.honk.org>
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On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Genesis wrote:
> Hi every one
> I am using RHL version 5, kernel 2.0.32
> I downloaded kernel-source-2.0.35-2.i386.rpm
> and kernel-headers-2_0_35-2.i386.rpm to upgrade my kernel
> used the command rpm -i kernel-source-2.0.35-2.i386.rpm
> to unstall the new kernel, it went fine and then it created
[snip]
> step from the begining using the rpm -i kernel-source-2.0.35-2.i386.rpm
> command, it tells me the package is already installed and so i can not
> do the install any more,
> please guide me how to correct the problem
> thank you in advance
If you have a package that is currently installed that you need to
re-install, try
rpm -i the_package_name --replacepkgs
If that doesn't work, try
rpm -i the_package_name --force
"man rpm" and "rpm --help | less" have more information on how to
use rpm.
Cheers,
- Bill
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