[ale] KDE reinstall

[Nathan J. Underwood]

Andy,

     I just wish that I could be of more help.  As I mentioned, I've just about
given up on RPM's (see my several earlier posts about Gentoo :-).  As long as
it's not a production box, and you're a bit inquisitive, it should be a real
learning experience ;-).  Keep shooting questions if you like, and I'll try to
keep answering.  I'm making no guarantee that the answers will be right, but
they will be answers.

Nathan

Quoting "Zyman, Andy" <zymana at hra.nyc.gov>:

> >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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