Re: Recover rpm files deleted by hand

[chuck]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Xin Zhao spewed into the bitstream:

XZ>
XZ>Hi,
XZ>
XZ>I installed a rpm package, but I accidently deleted some of the
XZ>files by "rm ..." instead of "rpm -e ... ". Then as I do "rpm -Uvh ..."
XZ>it tells me "... already installed"; if I do "rpm -e ...", it tells
XZ>me "... not installed". So what can I do to recover the deleted files or
XZ>get around it and redo all the installation from scratch?

from "man rpm"

--replacepkgs 

Install the packages even if some of them are already
installed on this system.

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