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? > You can remove them with "rpm -e pkgnames --nodeps" and then reinstall them with yum. I had to do this recently with some strangeness that was goign on with kpartx and device-mapper-multipath of al things. hope this helps Vernard