On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 09:41:15PM +0630, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Chris G wrote: >> Is there any way to force a yum install or update to work even when it >> normally fails because of some errors? >> I am trying to install a 32-bit version of a library on a 64-bit >> system and it fails only because the manual pages conflict with the >> already installed 64-bit library manual pages. Since they're probably >> the same manual pages (and anyway I'm not going to read them) is there >> any way I can tell yum to ignore the errors and install anyway? > > Short answer: No. > > You can force install using RPM but that should be avoided. If there are > packaging issues, file a bug report and get it fixed. > To be specific I wanted a 32-bit perl as well as a 64-bit perl. It turned out that I needed to update the 64-bit perl first as it was one verion older than the latest, once I'd done that the 32-bit perl installed without problems. -- Chris Green -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
