What to do?

[Timothy Murphy]

Henning Larsen wrote:

> I would create a new user and log in as the new user, and see if the
> problems disappears.
> 
> If they do, then the problems is easier to locate.
> If not, you could try to remove some of the programs with problems, and
> reinstall them.

What is the official way of re-installing a program in Fedora?
In general "yum remove foo" will remove a large number of packages.
Can one just remove the program with rpm and run "yum update"?

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