How do we have pacman to force download, reinstall a package, being it is installed now of the same latest version ?
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Install pacman-contrib package
Delete cache versions of installed and uninstalled packages, except for the most recent three, by default:
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Choose remove ALL files from cache
usually if you
suddo pacman -S [ pckage name] it will reinstall withiut being forced
for example if you run
sudo pcmn -S base-devel
it will install all the packages necessary to build pckages from source. it will also promt you as to wich ones you want to install and ten you can choose the ALL option andd it will reinstall them even if you have the most up to date versions.
force is not generally necesssary. why do you wish to use force?