On Sun, 27 Oct 2013, Rob Kampen wrote: > On 10/27/2013 07:03 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> Absent other ideas, I might try re-installing CentOS or re-installing X. >> I have a pretty good idea how to do the former, >> but the latter might be harder despite, in principle, being less intrusive. >> >> My understand is that unistalling X will >> normally take all its dependents will it. >> That means That I will have to re-install said dependents, >> possibly listing each one separately. >> My thought is to /usr/bin/script yum's output into a file. >> I'd use the file to produce another yum commmand to reinstall X's >> dependents. >> Does that seem like a good plan? > Way too much work. > Why not yum reinstall <package names> > That will ensure that all package contents are correctly installed......?? Would yum reinstall X reinstall X's dependents? If not, I still need the list of package names that depend on X. Telling yum, at least tentatively, to remove X would seem to be the simplest way. I really do not want to do any more experiments than I have to. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class, whom I teach not to run with scissors, that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos