martinjh99 Posted June 1, 2003 Report Share Posted June 1, 2003 I have a feeling that some of the files for Gnome have been corrupted. Is there any way to uninstall all the Gnome stuff and re-install it easily without having to reinstall Mandrake from scratch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted June 1, 2003 Report Share Posted June 1, 2003 Yip, just select Remove Packages in the Mandrake Control Centre and select all the Gnome packages and libraries and then you can uninstall them. After that, you re-install them under Install Packages. Just make sure you have all the right libraries, etc. installed otherwise Gnome might give you problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest siko9 Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 Just make sure you have all the right libraries, etc. installed otherwise Gnome might give you problems. Can that be done in the real world ??? :shock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 Yes. It takes some 40 minutes (depending on your 'puter): -You make a backup CD or partition -You pop the first 'Drake 9.1 CD and reboot -You make sure the bios boots from the CD -Reinstall 'Drake -Copy the files from the Backup to your /home/dir -Ta-da! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 The right way is to delete or rename all the gnome/s dirs from your home dir after you have uninstalled gnome......then reinstall. If things are really screwed up you don't want the gnome settings from your home dir that you renamed or backed up. You need to start fresh. It also only takes about 10-15 minutes for me and I only have a Celeron 600-192MBRAM-7200RPMMaxtor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 Good point bvc. Can that be done in the real world ??? It's not that bad, check it out :plan: - if you use Mandrake's package installer, all you have to do is select Gnome and it will automatically select all the required libs, etc. for you! Or, you can type: # urpmi gnome And watch it go! (The hash just means you need to be su before running urpmi). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adriano Posted June 2, 2003 Report Share Posted June 2, 2003 Trouble is, if you try to reinstall not just gnome but its libraries, odds are the list of packages to be removed and reinstalled is going to be huge. A solution could be writing it all down carefully and taking the trouble to reinstall it all again. You could also use urpm-replace, or something like that (not at my `puter now). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinjh99 Posted June 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2003 Well I did remove all of Gnome by urpme -a gnome I seem to remember seeing that there was a meta-rpm that when you installed it it installed all the rpms for Gnome. Anyone know what it was called as I can't remember where I found it now or what it was called! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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