On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 00:42 +0000, Dave Mitchell wrote: > If I have an installed RPM, and one or more of its installed files have > been deleted or corrupted, what's the best way to repair it? > > The only way I've found is > > rpm -e --nodeps foo.rpm > rpm -i foo.rpm > > which seems a bit clunky. Is there any way that only updates the damaged > files? Not really, but a cleaner method of reinstalling (i.e. without removing the existing one using the dreaded --nodeps option first) is: $ rpm -U --replacefiles --replacepkgs foo.rpm Paul.
