Is there a way to force an update/upgrade in yum?

[Sam Varshavchik]

Joe Zeff writes:

> On 08/01/2013 03:11 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>> You have two firefox packages installed. There are multiple ways of fixing  
>> this
>> with or without yum.
>
> No, I don't.  I never did.  I had the fc17 version of firefox 22 and  
> couldn't update to the f19 version of firefox 22 because of a file  
> conflict.  If I'd had both installed, fixing it would have been far more  
> trivial.

It's some kind of an RPM bug. I ran into this when upgrading from F18 to  
F19. The solution, on every box, was trivial. yum remove firefox, then yum  
install it. You'll be able to reinstall firefox just fine.

There is no real conflict. Something in RPM is FUbared.

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