YUM questions

[Wallace Judd]

Ah thanks that did the trick.


--- Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:46:21 -0500, Gene C.
> <czar at czarc.net> wrote:
> > I normally use up2date to update my system but
> up2date had some problems
> > (reported in bugzilla) with the gcc packages in
> FC4T1 so I thought I would
> > give yum a try.
> 
> man yum
> 
> to work around missing deps or conflicts for when
> using yum update use
> --exclude=package
> for example 
> yum --exclude=libmusicbrainz* --exclude=libwnck*
> --exclude=gnome-panel* --exclude=gnome-applets*
> --exclude=usermode*
> --exclude=gok* --exclude=gnome-system-monitor update
> 
> to specify 32bit versions  use packagename.arch  
> for example
> yum update cpp.i386  to update the cpp 32bit
> version.
> 
> There is no 'force' or 'reinstall' in yum's
> vocabulary. If you want to
> force or reinstall something use the rpm cli tool.
> 
> -jef
> -jef
> 
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