I tried to install alsa 1.0.19 on centos 5.3 64 - did not work - compile errors. I need to re-install alsa-lib and alsa-util . I dont want to do rpm -e first on those packages as dependcy is crazy. I know they were installed (rpm -qa | grep alsa tells me so) I just want to re-install ? How do I do that? Thanks, Jerry
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:> I tried to install alsa 1.0.19 on centos 5.3 64 - did not work - compile > errors.Installing via rpm is separate from compiling. Which are you doing? Are you having trouble building rpms, or installing them?> I need to re-install alsa-lib and alsa-util . > I dont want to do rpm -e first on those packages as dependcy is crazy. > I know they were installed (rpm -qa | grep alsa tells me so) I just want > to re-install ? > How do I do that?Depends. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell
>I just want to re-install ? >How do I do that?Fetch rpm's, man rpm, you'll see options to --force, --replacefiles, --replacepkgs etc... jlc
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote: > >/ I tried to install alsa 1.0.19 on centos 5.3 64 - did not work - compile > />/ errors. > / > Installing via rpm is separate from compiling. Which are you doing? > Are you having trouble building rpms, or installing them? > > > > >/ I need to re-install alsa-lib and alsa-util . > />/ I dont want to do rpm -e first on those packages as dependcy is crazy. > />/ I know they were installed (rpm -qa | grep alsa tells me so) I just want > />/ to re-install ? > />/ How do I do that? > / > Depends. > >nothing sinister here.... was not getting HDMI sound on my motherboard, did some searching seemed like I needed to update to alsa 1.0.19 so I tried it. compiling from source. Ran into compile errors so I wanted to backout to the default alsa. the default alsa worked but just not over HDMI . So I wish to re-install the default alsa 1.0.17 rpm's. Either through yum or rpm. preferably through yum. as its easier. Thanks, Jerry
Jerry Geis wrote:> I tried to install alsa 1.0.19 on centos 5.3 64 - did not work - compile > errors. > > I need to re-install alsa-lib and alsa-util . > I dont want to do rpm -e first on those packages as dependcy is crazy. > I know they were installed (rpm -qa | grep alsa tells me so) I just want > to re-install ? > How do I do that? >You can remove them with "rpm -e pkgnames --nodeps" and then reinstall them with yum. I had to do this recently with some strangeness that was goign on with kpartx and device-mapper-multipath of al things. hope this helps Vernard
Jerry Geis wrote:> I tried to install alsa 1.0.19 on centos 5.3 64 - did not work - compile > errors. > > I need to re-install alsa-lib and alsa-util . > I dont want to do rpm -e first on those packages as dependcy is crazy. > I know they were installed (rpm -qa | grep alsa tells me so) I just want > to re-install ? > How do I do that?Try the new "reinstall" option in CentOS 5.3's version of yum: yum reinstall alsa-lib alsa-util Erik
Dag Wieers <dag at centos.org> wrote:> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Erik Laxdal wrote: >> > Jerry Geis wrote: >> >>> >> I tried to install alsa 1.0.19 on centos 5.3 64 - did not work - compile >>> >> errors. >>> >> >>> >> I need to re-install alsa-lib and alsa-util . >>> >> I dont want to do rpm -e first on those packages as dependcy is crazy. >>> >> I know they were installed (rpm -qa | grep alsa tells me so) I just want >>> >> to re-install ? >>> >> How do I do that? >>> >> > >> > Try the new "reinstall" option in CentOS 5.3's version of yum: >> > >> > yum reinstall alsa-lib alsa-util >> > > Finally ! 10 years after apt :)I saw a t-shirt advertised recently that said "apt-get girlfriend". I'm guessing yum still can't do that ;-). Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce