Can one force yum to install something that's already installed?

[Gilboa Davara]

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 09:35 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> Is there any way to force yum to re-install a package that has got
> corrupted (well, *may* have got corrupted)?
> 
> Obviously I could do:-
> 
>     yum remove <package>
>     yum install <package>
> 
> but it seems like there ought to be an easier way to do it.
> 

In F8 you'll have to manually download the offending package and
reinstall it by hand. (rpm -Uvh --force rpm_package.rpm)

- Gilboa