[CentOS] re-install package

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Erik Laxdal wrote:

> Jerry Geis wrote:
>> 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 :)

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