On Sun, 27 Oct 2013, Rob Kampen wrote:
On 10/27/2013 07:03 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
Absent other ideas, I might try re-installing CentOS or re-installing X. I have a pretty good idea how to do the former, but the latter might be harder despite, in principle, being less intrusive.
My understand is that unistalling X will normally take all its dependents will it. That means That I will have to re-install said dependents, possibly listing each one separately. My thought is to /usr/bin/script yum's output into a file. I'd use the file to produce another yum commmand to reinstall X's dependents. Does that seem like a good plan?
Way too much work. Why not yum reinstall <package names> That will ensure that all package contents are correctly installed......??
Would yum reinstall X reinstall X's dependents? If not, I still need the list of package names that depend on X. Telling yum, at least tentatively, to remove X would seem to be the simplest way.
I really do not want to do any more experiments than I have to.