Reinstall yum packages

Some time yum package re-installation because of corrupt packages, we can re-install the yum package by using the following commands but make sure that you have logged in to the server as a root user else the following command won’t work properly.

yum clean all

yum update

yum reinstall $(yum list installed | awk ‘{print $1}’)

The above command will list all the install packages by yum and than re-install it, if you already know which packages is corrupt than simple re-install the package by using the following command.

yum reinstall package-name


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