Is there a "yum re-install"?

[Jim Cornette]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>> What I do when files are missing from a package is to run
>> rpm -e --justdb --nodeps <packagename>
>> to get rid of the database entry for the package. I then run
>> yum install packagename and answer yes to the yum prompt. This will
>> install the package and give you rpmnew or rpmsave files for important
>> configuration files that it encounters.
> 
> Thanks very much.
> I followed your method,
> which seemed the simplest and safest of those suggested,
> and the missing files were indeed re-instated.

I'm glad it worked for you. Since I run the development release, I use 
the method often.
Jim

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