On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 19:44 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Henning Larsen wrote: > > > >> I would create a new user and log in as the new user, and see if the > >> problems disappears. > >> > >> If they do, then the problems is easier to locate. > >> If not, you could try to remove some of the programs with problems, and > >> reinstall them. > > > > What is the official way of re-installing a program in Fedora? > > In general "yum remove foo" will remove a large number of packages. > > Can one just remove the program with rpm and run "yum update"? > > The latest yum (3.2.11) in Rawhide supports a "reinstall" argument. > > # yum reinstall <foo> works. > > Rahul > That's nice. does it leave dependencies or reinstall those packages too? Henning Larsen
