Re: Xprint from source has killed my KDE

J.O. Aho wrote:
> Bill Keegan wrote:
> 
>> Did as you suggested only I used 'rpm -i --force --allfiles' for all 
>> packages returned by 'rpm -qa | grep kde'. No luck.
> 
> 
> You should never use -i
> -Uvh is always better.
> 
> Try to reinstall qt too, as kde depends on that and you may have managed 
> to delete a file somehow.
> 
> 
>> I'm sure this is related to xprint which is why I posted here and not 
>> having used the rpm (it didn't work and now I know why) how can I 
>> uninstall or the tar installation? Or what else could it be?
> 
> 
> rpm -e <packagename>
> 
> Check if there is an official package for your distro, using RPMs for 
> other distros tend to have bad effects.
> 
> 
>  //Aho

I did the rpm -q --whatprovides /path/xprint and saw that it was 
XFree86, which makes sense since compiling xprint also compiled and 
installed XFree.

I reinstalled XFree-4.2.0 with rpm -Uvh and occasionally --force 
replacing all the XFree packages and it appears to work now. In fact I 
may even have xprint functionality(?)

Thanks for the advice,

bill