Re: eliminating/reinstalling kde
news <news@sea.gmane.org> wrote on 18.01.2005
18:38:59:
> Peter Nuttall wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 16:26, Matt Price wrote:
> >
> >>Hi folks,
> >>
> >>I have some kind of problem with my kde installation and would
like to
> >>entirely remove all kde-related packages and my conf files,
and then
> >>reinstall them (this is on unstable/i386). Are there
a couple of
> >>libraries I can remove that will drag all of kde out along
with it? And
> >>are all the conf files stored in ~/.kde?
> >>
> >>thanks as always for the help,
> >>
> >>Matt
> >>
> >
> > removing your ~/.kde/ will delete your config, so you shouldn't
need to
> > reinstall, if you do, taking out kdelibs or qt will remove kde.
(note:
> > doing this will not remove your ~/.kde)
> >
> > Pete
> >
> >
>
> THanks for that suggestion Pete.
>
> Unfortunately this hasn't solved my problem. There is apparently
some
> issue with the identification of mime types or something, I get an
error
> on starting kde, "klauncher: unknown protocol 'file'"; and
when I try to
> run most kde apps (I really want amarok) from outside kde, I get similar
> messages. This apparently shows up periodically, and folks have
> suggested updating my kde libraries, but I've done my best to update
> everything, e.g. kdelibs*, everything appears to be @ 3.3 now (I'm
> running unstable).
>
> k3b gives me this error:
>
> k3b: Version: 1.0
> kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Found version 72, expecting version 75 or
higher.
> kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Outdated database found
> kio (KSycoca): ERROR: No database available!
> kio (KSycoca): ERROR: No database available!
> k3b: (K3b::cutToWidth) not able to cut text to 1!
> kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Found version 72, expecting version 75 or
higher.
> kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Outdated database found
> k3b: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave:
> klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'file'.
> k3b:
> KCrash: Application 'k3b' crashing...
>
> I've just taken the ill-advised step of trying to run kde as root,
and I
> find that I don't have the problem as root! hmm. Anyone
have any idea
> what I should try next?
Create a new user with useradd and loginto your system
by using this account. After that, get all your data from /home/oldlign/*
to your new ~
I had this problem too some time ago and this worked
for me...
hth,
Andy
> thanks,
>
> matt
>
>
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