[ale] KDE reinstall

[Zyman, Andy]

>This isn't a production box, right?
no it is not :)))
thank you for explanations. I'll have quite busy evening, i guess.
//I hope it won't take me the whole weekend :)))

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan J. Underwood [mailto:lists at cybertechcafe.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:24 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale] KDE reinstall
> 
> 
> Andy,
> 
>      When you start uninstalling (the many facets of) kde, 
> you're probably going
> to get a bunch of "kde is required by......" messages.  If 
> you're using kdex,
> and you remove it and reinstall kdex, most of them will / 
> should still work
> (again, I'm definately not an rpm guru).  You're going to 
> have to use the
> --nodeps option (i'll let you figure out where :-) a couple 
> of times to get it
> uninstalled.  This isn't a production box, right?
> 
> Quoting "Zyman, Andy" <zymana at hra.nyc.gov>:
> 
> > 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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> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > -- 
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