rpm package deleted?

when a rpm package has been deleted manually how can i install it new

the problem is i can´t install it
and i can´t unistall it

i think ther is a database with the installed packages but i don´t know how
to
find or how to get the wrong package out

please help

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 00:40:19 +0200, Jan Redepenning <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> when a rpm package has been deleted manually how can i install it new

Did just that recently whilst cd'ed into /usr/bin !!! Not the best place
to do rm * okay so it wasn't me per se rather the Mozilla installer being
over enthusiastic.

> the problem is i can´t install it
> and i can´t unistall it
>
> i think ther is a database with the installed packages but i don´t know how
> to
> find or how to get the wrong package out

Several iterations of this (or similar):

rpm -Va|grep missing|cut --delimiter=" " --field=5|xargs \
rpm --install --replacepkgs

In otherwords rpm --install --replacepkgs is your friend.

Got evrything back.

Regards, Trevor

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