On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Samuel Flory wrote:
> Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>
> > While attempting to install anything .i686 ontop of anything .i386, rpm
> >screams bloody murder about conflicting files. Can I safely remove the .i386
> >version and install the .i686 one? My most recent attempt have been of
> >glibc-2.2.5-39.i686.rpm and kernel-2.4.18-10.i686.rpm - both rpms are already
> >installed, but as the .i386 version. So do I have to uninstall those first,
> >then install the .i686? Will it even let me? Or should I force rpm to install
> >the .i686 ones and ignore all the screaming it does?
This is exactly the situation that --force was made for. From the man
page:
--force
Same as using --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, and --old-
package.
--oldpackage
Allow an upgrade to replace a newer package with an
older one.
--replacefiles
Install the packages even if they replace files from
other, already installed, packages.
--replacepkgs
Install the packages even if some of them are already
installed on this system.
> rpm -Uvh --force glibc-2.2.5-39.i686.rpm kernel-2.4.18-10.i686.rpm
Should do the job.
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