On 2 June 2013 15:11, Ranjan Maitra maitra.mbox.ignored@inbox.com wrote:
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 13:12:36 +0100 Ian Malone ibmalone@gmail.com wrote:
(Incidentally there is a "yum reinstall" which is preferable to a separate uninstall and install if you do need to do this, though I don't think it works for package groups - need to know what the actual problem is.)
As a slight aside, one thing about "yum reinstall" that I find strange is that it does not reinstall the dependencies (unless there needs to be some other flag to make that happen).
when we do have dependencies (libRmath-devel) also installed. In my view both should be reinstalled.
This would only really make sense if done recursively. If you think about this for a moment you'll realise that it means reinstalling large chunks of the system (kernel, glibc, other libraries).