How do I reinstall a Splunk app?

[stefanlasiewski]

I have a Splunk app that might be corrupt and the fastest path to resolution might simply be to reinstall the app.

Can I reinstall a Splunk app, or must I follow a route like 'complete uninstall the app' and then 'reinstall the app from scratch'?

I am currently using Splunk 5 on Linux (EL6). Does Splunk 6 handle this differently?

[grijhwani]

You don't specify your platform. (I keep finding myself prefacing answers with that...) On Linux, if I really thought that might be the case I would simply stop Splunk, delete the app, restart and re-install. But then 9 times out of 10 I would install an app manually through the shell, not through the web interface.

[stefanlasiewski]

I use Linux (This is an EL6 box). So far I have only installed an app from the Web UI. Since I can install an app from the UI, I was assuming that I can also uninstall an app from the same UI.

[ggb667]

Well both Windows and Linux in my case, but we always install using a program calling things from the command line. So we do splunk install app [appname] -auth [username]:[password], but I have no idea if you can simply re-run it or if you MUST remove and reinstall.

[linu1988]

i guess if you change the version you will be able to upgrade if not re-install. And i guess you will be deploying using deployment server? Waiting for the answer too.