[Yum] Force package install using yum?

Jeffrey Walton noloader at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 09:11:23 UTC 2020


Hi Everyone,

I have a CentOS 7 box that's refusing a rpm update. I suspect it has
something to do with SCL enabled. The 'yum update' output is shown
below.

I need to force this package to install. I don't give a damn about the
log files. I need that server patched since it is forward facing.

How do I force the package installation?

Thanks in advance.

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Running transaction
  Updating   : httpd24-httpd-2.4.34-18.el7.x86_64                           1/2
Error unpacking rpm package httpd24-httpd-2.4.34-18.el7.x86_64
error: unpacking of archive failed on file
/opt/rh/httpd24/root/etc/httpd/logs: cpio: rename
httpd24-httpd-2.4.34-15.el7.x86_64 was supposed to be removed but is not!
  Verifying  : httpd24-httpd-2.4.34-15.el7.x86_64                           1/2
  Verifying  : httpd24-httpd-2.4.34-18.el7.x86_64                           2/2
Failed:
  httpd24-httpd.x86_64 0:2.4.34-15.el7   httpd24-httpd.x86_64 0:2.4.34-18.el7

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My attempt to force it from
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-October/msg02953.html:

# yum localinstall httpd24-httpd-2.4.34-18.el7.x86_64
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Skipping: httpd24-httpd-2.4.34-18.el7.x86_64, filename does not end in .rpm.
Nothing to do
# yum localinstall httpd24-httpd-2.4.34-18.el7.x86_64.rpm
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Cannot open: httpd24-httpd-2.4.34-18.el7.x86_64.rpm. Skipping.
Nothing to do


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