How to reinstall files reported by rpm -V to be missing or corrupted

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Issue

  • When running "rpm -V" commands, multiple files are reported as missing and many additional files have bad md5sums, timestamps, and file sizes. How can these files be easily restored?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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