[ale] KDE reinstall

[Zyman, Andy]

Great. thank you Nathan.
Will all xprograms "survive" this reinstall? or I'll have to install them
again?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan J. Underwood [mailto:lists at cybertechcafe.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:10 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale] KDE reinstall
> 
> 
> Andy,
> 
>      You should be able to remove KDE, and reinstall via RPM. 
>  The easiest way
> to find out all of the settings for RPM is to do a 'man rpm', 
> but here's what I
> would do (this, of course, comes with no warranty, expressed 
> or implied).
> 
> rpm -qa | grep [kK][dD][eE] <- This will find all of the KDE 'stuff'
> rpm -e <each of the packages>  <- This will remove the packages
> rpm -ivh <new kde packages> <- this will install the new 
> packages, with verbose
> output, and give hash marks so that you'll know if it hangs somewhere
> 
> Now, there are probably much better ways of doing it, but 
> I've strayed away from
> RPM's lately (google for 'dependency hell').  Hope this helps.
> 
> Quoting "Zyman, Andy" <zymana at hra.nyc.gov>:
> 
> > Nathan ,
> > Sorry, forgot:
> > RH8. I installed it from original CDrom while installing 
> the system. After
> > that ( i guess it was KDE2) agent updated it to KDE3 ....
> > The main 2 reasons to do that :
> > 1. Just to see how to do this
> > 2. I can't apply "schemes" and whole thing sometimes just 
> hangs, that i have
> > to reboot box - i guess it is because i "played" with 
> settings and now can't
> > do certain things.
> > 
> > I don't have anything there which i would like to preserve. 
> But if you could
> > please tell me where all customization settings go - that 
> would be nice.
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Nathan J. Underwood [mailto:lists at cybertechcafe.net]
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 8:14 AM
> > > To: ale at ale.org
> > > Subject: Re: [ale] KDE reinstall
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Which distro are you using?  Do you have any settings that 
> > > you want to retain? 
> > > How did you install it in the first place?
> > > 
> > > Quoting "Zyman, Andy" <zymana at hra.nyc.gov>:
> > > 
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > guys, very simple question: 
> > > > 	how can i reinstall the KDE?
> > > > 
> > > > can i do it using rpms? 
> > > > 
> > > > Thank You
> > > >  Andy
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