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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] Any answers for this dummy?
From:       rf <frosterrj () sbcglobal ! net>
Date:       2005-01-30 4:53:37
Message-ID: 1107060817.4552.4.camel () localhost
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what about from terminal running "urpmi mdkkdm" or urpmi "kdebase"  at
least it will tell you whats there and what is conflicting then you can
urpme the offending packages.  Since you aren't worried about losing
anything, maybe just re-install?  If you have /home on a different
partition you wont lose much personal stuff anyway.

good luck.  Guess you wont be messing with your father-in-law again will
you!! :)
robert

On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 21:41 -0500, Logan Anderson wrote:
> I have a motto that if it aint broke you can't fix it, not to be
> confused with if it aint boke don't fix it. With that in mind, maybe
> someone has some answers for me. I have mandrake 10.1 and I was
> running KDE. I tried to install the program airsnort (wireless
> cracker) so I could mess with my father in law a little. It came up
> and said I needed a newer version of GTK (GTK 2.0 I think). So I
> started trying to install different RPM's to get it working. Well
> several of them said they were conflicting or missing dependencies and
> so I just started doing rpm -i --force. I'm sure you can imagine what
> is happened. KDE wont run at all. I dont even remember what packages
> Ive installed. The question I have is this, what is the easiest way to
> get it installed without reinstalling the whole OS? Is there just a
> couple of basic RPMS I can go get and install just to put it back
> where it was? Im not concerned about saving any kind of data, I just
> would like to get it running KDE again. Now, if I run /etc/X11/prefdm
> then X starts, it just seems like it has no session managers. all I
> have is an xterm window and couple other things like that. I can run a
> few programs that run in X but most programs wont run and I cant seem
> to get into KDE or gnome.
>  
>  
> Thanks for all the help,
> Logan
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