[CentOS] how to yum install after deleting some files?
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Wed Jun 24 16:34:05 UTC 2009
At Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:42:10 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
> On 06/24/2009 04:36 PM, MontyRee wrote:
> > I have deleted some files for mistake.
> > So I would like to re-install those files using yum install.
>
> yum reinstall <pkgname>
>
> that should work on CentOS-5, if you are using CentOS-3 or 4 then no
> there is no way to do this. You would need to use rpm to delete the
> package first then yum to install it
rpm -hiv --force brokenpackage.rpm
replace 'brokenpackage.rpm' with the package RPM whose files you
deleted by mistake.
>
> - KB
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