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I accidentally deleted python, python2, python2.7 files from /usr/bin/. Now yum is also not working.

Is it possible to recover them?

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Which distribution are you using? – depquid Apr 3 at 16:36
cross-post – don_crissti Apr 3 at 16:38
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Depending on how you installed them, you should be able to reinstall.

On Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or clones like CentOS you'd do yum -y reinstall python to install the package (even if it is already installed), for example to fix broken packages.

Other Linux distributions should have similar commands, I don't know enough to suggest anything for them. Hopefully others chip in.

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If "yum is also not working", how can you use yum to fix it? – Michael Mrozek♦ Apr 3 at 16:43
@MichaelMrozek, Use rpm to reinstall yum... but that is another question, not a comment. – vonbrand Apr 3 at 16:44

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