[TriLUG] who moved my fmt?
Joseph Tate
jtate at dragonstrider.com
Mon Aug 11 17:26:13 EDT 2003
Take a look at the man page for RPM. There are several options that
could help you out.
--noscripts Don't run install or uninstall scripts
--oldpackage Install an older package than is currently installed
--nodeps Don't calculate dependencies
-V Package verification also useful as -Va
Probably what you want is rpm -Uvh --oldpackage
coreutils-4.5.7-lmdk.i586.rpm or something like that.
If all else fails, you can rpm -e --nodeps --force --noscripts coreutils
and then rpm -ivh --nodeps --force --noscripts coreutils.
Joseph
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
>
>
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