Stephen Harris wrote:
I've taken over a CentOS machine. The previous SA had a habit of using the --nodeps flag to rpm to remove packages (he was trying to build a small server and removed packages he felt weren't needed). I have a horrible feeling that this has resulted in some required dependencies no longer being met. The server kinda-works, but it may break in unexpected ways; I don't like being surprised!
Is there an easy way to determine what rpms might be missing? I'd hoped to use something like "rpm -qR" against each of the installed packages, but that output isn't simply converted to rpm package names.
Any guidance appreciated!
Thanks,
Try something like this:
yum reinstall $(yum list installed | awk '{print $1}')
It should force reinstall and ask for dependencies in the process, but I do not have any broken system to try if it works.
Ljubomir