The freshen option is almost the Upgrade option. The
only difference is that an older version of the package is not on the
system, then the package will not be installed.
#
rpm -Fvh package-name.rpm
This can be a nice option if you can find a repository
that contains all the RPM's that are installed on your system. You
could freshen (upgrade) all the packages on your system with the
following command: