No need to look up how to do a clean install.

The suggestion you don't know that enterprise OSes have been doing clean installs and removals of a product and all its dependencies for 25 years as a critical test before issuing said packages suggests you're working around too many problems without solving them.

We did devops by pxe-based kickstart and then simple package updates before devops was even a word. It still does better than Ansible does now.