[TriLUG] who moved my fmt?

[Tanner Lovelace]

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Maria Winslow wrote:
| Help! I have managed to blow away fmt, and I can't live without it. But I
| can't figure out how to get it back. It is in the package:
| coreutils-4.5.7-lmdk. When I try to uninstall, rpm says that it's not
there.
| When I try to install, rpm says it's already installed. What should I do?
| Can't I just get the binary somewhere? I'm running Mandrake 9.
|
| Thanks,
| Maria

If you're sure that the rpm it's in is already installed but the
file isn't there, then this is one of the very few times when
the --force option of rpm is useful.  Try using that and see if
that works.

Tanner
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