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Date:      Sun, 26 Jul 1998 14:34:27 -0400
From:      Stuart Krivis <stuart@krivis.com>
To:        "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net>, "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kdehelp doesn't work (KDE 1.0 and FBSD 2.2.7)
Message-ID:  <98072614410300.00220@stuart.apk.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980726102415.5573D-100000@vanessa.eliuk.org>

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On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Kevin G. Eliuk wrote:

>Without more to go on I really can't say what the problem could be.
>I'll be definately installing KDE when the CD's are shipped, hopefully
>it's a simple fix.

It works now, so it must have been simple. :-)

>=> I'm trying to remove all the kde pieces and recompile and install, but
>=> that isn't going well either. I grabbed the pkgs and will try that next.
>
>Doesn't say `pkg_delete kde-3.1b' remove all/most of the the package
>with warnings for areas that it could not successfully remove? 

>pkg_delete -n kde-3.1b
>Attempting to remove dependency on package `giflib-3.0'

<snip>

>Attempting to remove dependency on package `uulib-0.5.13'
>
>Nope, but it does give you a pretty list :-)

The FBSD pkg tools are not the equal of rpm IMO in terms of user interface. rpm
also handles dependencies now, so I'd rate it better overall from a user's
point of view. (Some of this may be due to my familiarity with rpm.)

What finally worked was to "make deinstall," then pkg_add -f the KDE 1.0
packages. After a reboot, things started working again. Kdehelp even works. :-)


Thanks to everyone for pointing me in the right direction.

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