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Reinstalling Packages on CentOS or RHEL

Installed package lists are kept in /var/log/rpmpkgs.

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cp /var/log/rpmpkgs /backups/packages\n
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Reinstall with

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yum install $(sed 's/-[0-9].*.rpm$//g' /backups/packages | tr '\\n' ' ')\n
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