Re: [CentOS] re-install package

Dag Wieers dag@centos.org wrote:

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Erik Laxdal wrote:

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Jerry Geis wrote:

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I tried to install alsa 1.0.19 on centos 5.3 64 - did not work - compile errors.

I need to re-install alsa-lib and alsa-util . I dont want to do rpm -e first on those packages as dependcy is crazy. I know they were installed (rpm -qa | grep alsa tells me so) I just want to re-install ? How do I do that?

Try the new "reinstall" option in CentOS 5.3's version of yum:

 yum reinstall alsa-lib alsa-util

Finally ! 10 years after apt :)

I saw a t-shirt advertised recently that said "apt-get girlfriend". I'm guessing yum still can't do that ;-).

Cheers, Dave