Steve, thank you for reply. it made my long night shorter.
On 03/02/2016 05:40 AM, Steve Clark wrote: <<>> --
You can use rpm -v -V -a to check the validity of all your packages or rpm -v -V pkgname to check a single package.
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never used '-V'.
"one is never too old to learn something new". and i am one of those 'one'.
See the following link for details. http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-verify.html
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that is one nice page to bring understanding of verify.
your reply has brought brought an end to my 'watch word', perseverance. having always persevered in what i do, this is one time that a command option has convinced me that i need to wipe a partition and reinstall.
there were close to 2K lines of missing dependencies which is close to the number of packages installed.
there is now much doubt that i would have been able to repair system without a lot time and aggravation.
all this does prove one thing, i need to check my biorhythms more often.
biorhythm 2016-0302: emotional -85% rising, physical +90% rising, intellectual + 8% falling
http://www.degraeve.com/bio.php
my biorhythm plots are not 100%, but they have proved out about 75% of time.
btw, i am using my laptop at this time as i no longer trust my desktop. ;-)
now pulling 6.7 netinstall. next is to copy grub.conf and fstab to ~/geo. after, i will copy /home partition so i can resize '/' partition and move extended partition down on drive. re-sizing '/' is because of another -% intellectual day and i made '/' 80GB. :-)
again, i thank you very much for your reply. it was of great help and will make this day more enjoyable.
take care, have a good one.