On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 07:09:09PM -0500, Bob Hartung wrote: > I managed to somehow crunch my XFree86 server when having problems > with my mouse and KVM switch configuration. Now KDE will not start > and cannot "connect to the X Server." Gnome starts up and runs okay. > > So in order to start from scratch, I want to totally uninstall the > current KDE packages. Will I be fairly sure that all elements will be > eliminated if I just uninstall the RPMs used for initial installation? Yes. That should cover everything except what's in your home directory (~/.kde). > Also, does anyone know if it is possibly to redirec the reinstallation > [if I get that far] to /opt/kde rather than the default locations. You can try to ask nicely: rpm -i --prefix /opt/kde <package> I don't know if the particular rpms you're using are relocatable or not. You could also try the more intense: rpm -i --relocate /usr=/opt/kde --badreloc <package> This will *force* everything to be installed in /opt/kde, but there's no guarentee that KDE will still work if you do this. If neither of these work, you'd have to pull down the SRPM and modify the .spec file yourself to move it. Rob -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
