> > rpm -qa | while read p ; do yum <whatever> $p ; done > rpm -qa | xargs yum <whatever> > > Replace <whatever> with whatever it takes to force yum to reinstall. > > Once you get it started, go have a good long nap:-) It probably wont work, because there's a ton of *-devel packages that need to be installed when rebuilding, which are probably not on the system right now. If you always have your user home dirs on a seperate partition/disk, it's no big deal to reinstall. Just make sure you don't accidentally overwrite the user disk :-) -- Morten