Re: Easiest way to restore corrupt file from rpm?

[Mike Burger <mburger bubbanfriends org>]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Neal D. Becker wrote:

> I have a corrupt file on my filesystem that belongs to kdebase.  What would
> be the easiest way to get rpm to repair this file?  The only thing I can
> think of is
> 
> rpm -e --nodeps --justdb kdebase
> rpm -i --nodeps -f kdebase

That would certainly be an option.

You could also try "rpm -F kdebase-versioninfo.rpm" where -F is for 
"Freshen" the current installation.  Might work.
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