Re: reinstalling rpm's

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai welho com>]

Quoting Daniel Rubin <dlrubin@yahoo.com>:

> How do I reinstall rpm's? Is there a way to do this
> through apt-get? 

apt-get --reinstall install <pkg1> <pkg2>..

> (I recently did an rpm -Va and I see several missing
> files, and presume it would be a good idea to
> reinstall the rpm's associated with them).
> 
> Also, the rpm -Va shows lots of files with various
> flags (S, M, 5, L, and T)--how do I decide whether I
> need to fix any of the rpms? Are there certain flags
> that are more alarming? (Clearly, if you change a
> config file, then it will show up in the rpm -Va and
> that doesn't mean you need to reinstall the rpm).

Well if a binary or a library has it's checksum or size changed for example 
then clearly something is wrong. Changed file permissions *can* be sign of 
trouble, or can be something done deliberately by administrator etc.

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