Re: [CentOS] re-install package

Joseph L. Casale wrote:

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You can remove them with "rpm -e pkgnames --nodeps" and then reinstall them with yum. I had to do this recently with some strangeness that was goign on with kpartx and device-mapper-multipath of al things.

# rpm -i --replacepkgs <rpm-file> is possibly safer in "some" scenarios. Depending on what you are removing and how, you might break something bad by ripping it out, then trying to get it back in after the system is a in a compromised state. This might be safer in those small percentage of cases.

Another option is "rpm -e --nodeps --justdb ..." to leave the files in place while making it appear that the package is no longer installed. Follow that with "yum install ...".