[NMLUG] RPM's

[timothyemerick at yahoo.com (Tim Emerick)]

Try this suggestion:

Managing RPMs:
In any distribution that uses the Red Hat package manager (Red Hat, Caldera,
and TurboLinux are a few) you can just use the rpm command to install it from
your CD. Use rpm -i <filename> to install a package; rpm -U <filename> to
upgrade a package; and rpm -i --force <filename> if you installed a package,
but didn't use rpm to remove it and want to reinstall it. The file name
should end in "*.rpm". If rpm doesn't work on your system then you don't have
it installed. 

Found this by googling for "force rpm reinstall corrupted"
http://linuxguide.automatedshops.com/LinuxGuide/linux-basics.html

Sounds like using rpm -i --force should work to reinstall python right on top
of itself.

Hope that works.

Tim
--- Will Pearson <wpearson@mail.sfps.k12.nm.us> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've encountered a situation with Python 2.2 on one of my computers. I
> was compiling some software which required Python 2.2 and above.
> Afterwards my Python installation seems to have been corrupted. I
> rebooted and the system wouldn't boot without me fsck'ing it. Fsck
> discovered several problems with files in Python which were screwed up
> and removed them. There aren't any more file system problems but Python
> is corrupted. I did an RPM verification on the Python package and it
> confirmed that those files were now missing. I've tried uninstalling
> Python but other packages require it and I don't feel confident removing
> it and then installing it again because it may corrupt something else.
> How can I go about reinstalling the Python RPM package without
> corrupting anything?
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