Sherpa Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 my computer has been up and running fine and i decided to install the xine player when i did, it asked to uninstall a bunch of things, i stupidly pressed ok for all of them then when i restarted my KDE will not load up, i cant even go to the auto login and select KDE because it it not on the menu, but when i go to remove packeage, i see abunch of stuff under kde environment. Please help me, i dont want to have to uninstall and reinstall again...... Those packages that i had to uninstall had to do with KDE multimedia, or something EDIT: now i restarted again after trying to reinstall some things and GNOME is dead, is there a way to GOBACK or use the instalation disk to repair, if not i need to know how to move files to my other harddrive, im in ICEWM now and the nautilis file manager is not loaded or something so i cannot get to a window to cut and paste, i need to know how to move files in text based linux so i can save my files and uninstall and reinstall the wholw thing sob..... sob sob sob........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted May 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 here is another pic, it is of my remove packages thing, showing what i have installed if that helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 18, 2004 Report Share Posted May 18, 2004 (edited) well you're in gui, so that's good! What happens when you try to install kdebase or kdebase-common ? I would not reinstall or Upgrade, which would be one way to fix it, possibly, but if you're having a dependecy problem, which is what it looks like, the Upgrade is likely to fail. There's no GoBack. You can copy files with the cp command. Example (replace with your names/paths): cp -fR /home/Sherpa/Docs /mnt/bkup What kind of sources do you have? Just the default cdrom sources? Updates? mirrors? If mirrors and Updates, when is the last time you updated them? urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto --auto-select Edited May 18, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted May 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 well im not sure what you mean by sources, but i downloaded 3 iso cds from linux iso.org and put them in a fat32 partition of my hardrive and installed from my harddrive, i had everything updated using the mandrake update system, i have tried to update those install those things before, and ill see if i can get a screen shot of what happens but if i remember correctly it said something about "libkdecorations.so.1" or something like that, then after i tried to install those, they disappeared from the add menu, i also remember something similar to the first picture happen..... thank you for responding so quickly!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 (edited) another option is to rip out kde and reinstall kde. This worked years ago....but I ain't testing it to see if it still does.....but you can. rpm -e --force --nodeps | grep kde then; urpmi kdebase ...but you didn't hear it from me :unsure: Edited May 19, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted May 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 no, in that first pic, that is what happened when i tried to install kdebase...... i then tried uninstalling kdebase-common from my system (it was on my system) then reinstalling it no luck there.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 (edited) [root@localhost root]# urpmf libkdecorations.so.1 libkdebase4:/usr/lib/libkdecorations.so.1 libkdebase4:/usr/lib/libkdecorations.so.1.0.0 [root@localhost root]# rpm -q --whatrequires libkdebase4 kdebase-common-3.2.2-7mdk libkdebase4-devel-3.2.2-7mdk kdebase-progs-3.2.2-7mdk [root@localhost root]# rpm -q --whatrequires kdebase mdklaunchhelp-9.2-7mdk kdebase-servicemenu-10.0-7mdk libkdebase4-nsplugins-3.2.2-7mdk k3b-0.11.9-2mdk libkdeaddons1-konqimagegallery-3.2.2-1mdk kdenlive-0.2.3-6mdk [root@localhost root]# Edited May 19, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted May 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 that sounds like something to my liking.... do i do that from a regular command prompt? or the recovery cd? i wanted to uninstall it from the gui but last time i did that i ended up erasing rpmdrake and drakeconfig... and that was not good at all, but is there a way to get the nautalis file server runing in ICEWM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted May 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 (edited) kdebase-common-3.2.2-7mdk libkdebase4-devel-3.2.2-7mdk kdebase-progs-3.2.2-7mdk [root@localhost root]# o yes i recognise these files, i went to an rpm search and downloaded and installed libkdecorations.so.1 EDIT: yes yes yes all of those files... i recognise all of them, i just wish i knew what i deleted.... ok i was installing XINE player, and there was a conflict with an already installd plugin, and i uninstalled the plug in and it had a ton of things tied to it like KDE artwork package or something like that Edited May 19, 2004 by Sherpa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 (edited) you can do it in icewm. Open a terminal>su to root> rpm -e --force --nodeps | grep kde then; urpmi kdebase which nautilus or rpm -q nautilus will tell you if it is installed. If it is, run nautilus from a terminal to find out why it won't start. /dinner time ;) ...be back Edited May 19, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted May 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 ok, this is all good stuff thanks (im sure to be up all night doing this) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted May 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 ditto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 remember the --help and man for rpm urpmi urpme urpmf urpmq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherpa Posted May 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 ok i got everything fixed, i can now log into gnome, and the login screen looks the some as i did before, but now KDE does not show up in the list of WMs to log into..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 19, 2004 Report Share Posted May 19, 2004 from a terminal, what is the output of; rpm -qa | grep kde (this will list all pkgs with 'kde' in the name) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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