Easiest way to restore corrupt file from rpm?

[Mike Burger]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Paul Howarth wrote:

> Neal D. Becker wrote:
> > I have a corrupt file on my filesystem that belongs to kdebase.  What would
> > be the easiest way to get rpm to repair this file?  The only thing I can
> > think of is
> > 
> > rpm -e --nodeps --justdb kdebase
> 
> That won't replace the file at all, as the only thing it changes is the RPM 
> database.
> 
> > rpm -i --nodeps -f kdebase
> 
> That'll work, but I tend to favour:
> 
> rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs kdebase

Good choice, as well.
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