On Thursday 30 January 2003 12:37 am, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 January 2003 02:28 am, Dudás Péter wrote:
> > HI!
> >
> > I use debian woody with  kernel 2.4.20.
> > Unfortunately I deleted the /KDE3 directory.
> > I wanted to reinstall, but apt-get kde lists a lot of dependencies.
> > I cannot install them, because there are a lot of errors between.
> >
> > Apt-get remove kde tell kde is not installed.
> >
> > I tried apt-get -f install, but not worked.
> > I tried to put an exit 0 in all the files of the kde in apt's info
> > directory, but not helped. I tried to install the deps, but it does
> > not worked.
> >
> > How can I uninstall or reinstall KDE?
> > Please help me!
>
> Peter,
>
> I would suggest that you download the KDE-3.1 source code and build it
> yourself.  Do the same with QT-3.1 first.  I did it this way, and am
> much happier with the outcome.
>
> BTW, the build will go much faster if you exit from X and build from
> console.  You need to build arts, kde-libs, and then kde-base first.
> After that, you can start a different build on each console.  I had 6
> running simultaneously. I'd suggest you start the latter when you're
> going to be away from the computer for awhile. ;)
>
> Regards,
>
> Glen
>

Regarding apt .. check the 'man apt-get' page .. there are some options 
like '--reinstall' or 'dpkg --remove' that may work.
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