Re: Xprint from source has killed my KDE

Bill Keegan wrote:
> I downloaded and installed 
> xprint-2004-07-07-release_009_001-0.9.001.i386.rpm on a RH 7.3 
> workstation. After what appeared to be a successful build and install I 
> lost my /etc/init.d symbolic link and failed to startup. I repaired that 
> but I'm now unable to start KDE though thankfully gdm still works.
> 
> What likely went wrong and more importantly how can I repair or 
> reinstall KDE et. al. without being lame and doing a whole 7.3 reinstall 
> or upgrade to newer version?

All KDE RPMs has the kde string in the beginig, so take your KDE update RPMs 
which you hopefully still have (otherwise go to a ftp and download).

rpm -Uvh --force kde*.i386.rpm

Should fix yout kde.


  //Aho