If you install the rpm with a 'force' switch does that install it?

> Sometimes a package is not removed cleanly. Here is the situation, you
> try to install something and rpm says its already installed. You then
> try to remove it, and rpm says that is not installed. What can you do?
> 
>       rpm -ivh --force package-1.0-5.i386.rpm
> 
> The --force option is your solution.


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