Ok tried it again last night but unfortunately without success. Steps: * From runlevel 3 I shut down all KDE related processes using Vadyms advice. ie: pe -ef | grep kde | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9 * ls *.rpm | xargs rpm -qp --queryformat "%{NAME}\n" | xargs rpm -e --allmatches I ran this from the KDE rpms download directories to remove all the previously installed packages that I was about to reinstall * installed kdebase.rpm (the kde2 package) first * installed all base rpms - except for kde2-compat and kde3base-extras (the latter gave conflicts with kde3base because of a few theme files) - and it ran through ok even without the "--nodeps" flag * installed all application rpms with --nodeps * installed all development rpms with --nodeps (twice) * installed applications again using --nodeps since it failed here and there due to missing third party packages (I can follow that up later when I actually need those apps). As far as I could tell the failed packages did not include important packages such as knetwork (since Kmail is there) and the others that we mentioned previously. Results: KDE starts as before, Kmail and YaST etc all work fine but I still get the same old error messages when I try to open particular modules in Control Center. Still claims that libkcm_konq.la (among others that I listed previously) is not found in paths. I checked, and libkcm_konq.la does exist now on the HD (/opt/kde2/lib/kde2) but just doesn't seem to get found. After all that it was getting late and I had to get some beauty sleep ;-) (believe me I need it!!) So any ideas what to try next? I might try the kde2-compat package and see what that does but any further suggestions would be much appreciated. Regards Richard On Monday 03 March 2003 20:01, Richard Andrews wrote:
Hi Richard,
here are the details you asked for...
It seems you're running the old kcontrol. What is the result of: - which kcontrol (in a konsole window).
/opt/kde3/bin/kcontrol
- and "rpm -qa | grep ^k"
kbd-1.06-37 kdelibs3-devel-3.1-46 kconfigure-1.1-275 kernel-source-2.4.18.SuSE-35 kdebase3-devel-doc-3.0.4-4 kdebase3-nsplugin-3.1-74 k_deflt-2.4.18-58 kdebase3-extra-3.1-7 kalsatools-1.2.8-120 kaudiocreator-0.88-9 kcommander3-3.0-404 kdebase3-devel-3.1-74 kdclock-0.3.3-100 kdegraphics3-devel-3.1-90 kfilecoder-0.5.0-1003 kfilter-0.6beta-772 kgoodstuff-3.0.0-293 kleandisk-2.0-876 klock-0.3.1-518 kradio-0.1.2-838 kmag-0.8-307 krecord-1.13-3 kmasqdialer-2.04-369 knc-1.90-649 kmlovoice-2.0.pre2-0 kmplayer-0.7.2-0 krpmbuilder-0.2.6-311 kpncalc-0.7-0 kpooka-1.1-480 kprof-1.4.1-125 kseg-0.3-170 krusader-1.10-192 ksetiwatch-2.5.0-255 kshowmail-3.0.3-267 kssh-0.7-289 kstocks-2.0.2-415 kvdr-0.42-125 kuml-0.5.1-502 kwebget-0.8-315 kwix-1.0.9kb-1101 kdeaddons3-3.1-39 kdebindings3-mozilla-3.1-37 kdebase3-SuSE-0.0.3-113 kdeutils3-devel-3.1-58 kdesdk3-devel-3.1-84 kinternet-0.42-110 konserve-0.7.1-81 kbear-2.1-33 knoda-devel-0.5.6-17 kwatch-2.3.0-138 kio_sql-0.3-98 kdenetwork3-devel-3.1-61 km_drm-4.2.0-107 kdebase3-ksysguardd-3.1-74 kalzium-0.4-314 kdemultimedia3-devel-3.1-62 kdenetwork3-devel-3.1-61 kdegraphics3-kooka-3.0-95 kdeadmin3-3.1-51 kdetoys3-3.1-61 kdebindings3-3.1-37 kdedb-0.1-409 kdeutils3-3.1-58 kdegraphics3-scan-0.39-82 kdeedu3-3.1-63 ksim-0.9.0-1 kdesdk3-devel-3.1-84 kdenetwork3-lisa-3.1-61 kdoc-2.0a54-138 kmud-1.99-565 kdevelop3-2.1.5-4 kdialog-0.2-601 kappdock-0.47-298 kde3-i18n-en_GB-3.1-0 kdesdk3-3.1-84 kdenetwork3-3.1-61 kde-i18n-de-2.2.2-160 koffice-i18n-de-1.2.1-0 kdemultimedia3-3.0.4-8 kde2-compat-2.2.2-426 kdebase3-3.1-74 kdelibs3-3.1-46 kcachegrind-0.3a-0 koffice-1.2.1-66 kdegames3-3.1-62 kdeartwork3-3.1-86 kdbg-1.2.5-391 kdelibs3-devel-doc-3.1-46 koffice-devel-1.2.1-66 kde3-i18n-de-3.1-0 koffice-i18n-en_GB-1.2.1-0 koffice-i18n-uk-1.2.1-0 k3b-0.8-0 kaim-0.72-387 kalamaris-0.7.1-362 kam2-0.3.2-945 kaptain-0.6-804 karchiver-3.0.1-248 kbiff-3.6.1-390 kdegraphics3-3.1-90 kdepim3-3.1-90 kdirstat-2.2.0-300 kec-0.6.2b-571 kemistry-0.2-472 kgamma-1.0.1-0 kgpg-0.9.5-0 khrono-2.0-921 kile-1.4-9 kinkatta-1.01-320 klassie-1.22-501 klogic-1.403-22 kmago-1.1.2-431 kmatplot-0.4-77 kmlocfg-2.0.pre1-525 kmlofax-2.1.rc3-0 kmrml-0.2.1-303 kmymoney-0.4-416 knights-0.5.9-30 knoda-0.5.6-17 koncd-1.0rc2-216 kopete-0.6.1a-0 kover-2.8.7-132 kpicframer-0.4.4-0 kpl-2.2-689 kpovmodeler-0.2-11 kpuzzle-0.3-400 kreatecd-1.1.0-179 ksimus-0.3.5-78 ksnuffle-2.2-482 ksteak-0.9.2-339 ktamaga-0.7.1-998 kups-1.0-371 kvim-6.1.141rc1-235 kvirc-2.9.9-96 kwintv-0.8.11-137 kxicq2-0.7.6-527 kde2-compat-devel-2.2.2-426 kdepim3-kpilot-3.0.4-7
Which suse version are you running.
SuSE Pro 8.0
I shall try removing the kde3.1 stuff again, deinstalling kde2 conpat, reinstalling kde2base and then the kde3.1 packages and see if that works...
Regards, and thanks for the help,
Rich 2 ;-)