Easiest way to restore corrupt file from rpm?

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• Subject: Easiest way to restore corrupt file from rpm?
• From: "Neal D. Becker" <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 09:52:36 -0400
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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
rpm -i --nodeps -f kdebase

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