Linux – Replace file belonging to an installed RPM with a different RPM using YUM

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How to replace a file belonging to an installed RPM with a different RPM (a hotfix RPM) that includes the same file, using YUM.

YUM does not provide the –replacefiles option (available in the rpm command) and hence fails due to the conflict between the 2 packages containing the same file.

Is there an option in YUM that will address this ? Or a workaround to do such installations ?

Best Answer

Download the rpms and do the install with the rpm command and the local files. yumdownloader is part of yum-utils on RHEL and makes it easy to download rpms from a yum repo.

Or, you can run the rpm command directly using urls for the RPMs instead of local copies of the RPMs.

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