Jim I've taken a look at what you suggested. It seems that even with the -F (freshen option) one still needs to be freshening with a later version than the one installed. It does not seem possible to reinstall a package while it is currently installed.... but perhaps I'm missing something. John On Friday 19 March 2004 17:51, Jim MacLeod wrote:
On Friday 19 March 2004 12:06, John Satherley wrote:
Is it possible to reinstall kdebase3 without first uninstalling it? If I uninstall it then many other KDE programs will also be uninstalled and probably then a complete reinstallation of KDE 3..2.1will be required. Any ideas on how to avoid this? John
AFAIK you can "reinstall" without uninstalling first as the rpm command has a freshen option which updates an existing package. There should not be any broken dependencies since kdebase3 will always exist. You may, however, wish to have this confirmed by a more experienced user than I before going ahead. Perhaps one of them will (dis)agree with me. Then again, you may decide to throw caution..... Jim
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