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How do I reinstall a Splunk app?
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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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