reinstall gcc

[Tim P. Starrin]

Would the rpm "--replacepkgs" option do the trick?

Bipin Baghele wrote:
> Hi,
> I have RHEL 4 update 6 server running ok but due to some application failure
> we believe that some gcc related files are corrupted and would like to
> reinstall gcc package.
> I do have the whole rpm source for RHEL 4 update 6 but tried updating using
> up2date command but does not update any files and says package is already
> installed. I dont want to remove the package and reinstall because of so
> many gcc packages (see below) and their interdependency.
> Is their a way I can reinstall all gcc package of same release, in this case
> install gcc on update 6 machine from update 6 rpm package list.
>
> # uname -a
> Linux gvl7015 2.6.9-67.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Nov 7 13:56:44 EST 2007 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> # cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 6)
>
> # rpm -qa|grep gcc
> gcc-3.4.6-9
> gcc4-java-4.1.2-14.EL4
> gcc4-c++-4.1.2-14.EL4
> compat-gcc-32-3.2.3-47.3
> libgcc-3.4.6-9
> gcc-java-3.4.6-9
> compat-libgcc-296-2.96-132.7.2
> gcc-c++-3.4.6-9
> gcc4-4.1.2-14.EL4
> libgcc-3.4.6-9
> gcc-gnat-3.4.6-9
> compat-gcc-32-c++-3.2.3-47.3
> compat-gcc-32-c++-3.2.3-47.3
> gcc4-gfortran-4.1.2-14.EL4
> gcc-objc-3.4.6-9
> gcc-g77-3.4.6-9
> compat-gcc-32-3.2.3-47.3
>