[NMLUG] RPM's

[ebrown at lanl.gov (Ed Brown)]

Try the '--replacepkgs' option to the rpm install command (which says,
install even if already installed).

-Ed



On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 11:05, Will Pearson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've encountered a situation with Python 2.2 on one of my computers. I
> was compiling some software which required Python 2.2 and above.
> Afterwards my Python installation seems to have been corrupted. I
> rebooted and the system wouldn't boot without me fsck'ing it. Fsck
> discovered several problems with files in Python which were screwed up
> and removed them. There aren't any more file system problems but Python
> is corrupted. I did an RPM verification on the Python package and it
> confirmed that those files were now missing. I've tried uninstalling
> Python but other packages require it and I don't feel confident removing
> it and then installing it again because it may corrupt something else.
> How can I go about reinstalling the Python RPM package without
> corrupting anything?