What happened to my KDE?

[Ralf Habacker]

On Friday 02 April 2004 23:55, Jelks Cabaniss wrote:
> Ralf Habacker wrote:
> >>> ipc-daemon2 &
> >>> Xwin -multiwindow -clipboard &
> >>> kdeinit
> >>
> >> Ah.  "bash: kdeinit: command not found"
> >
> > Seems you haven't installed the kdelibs package or the files under
> > /opt/kde3 are deleted. Please reinstall the kdelibs-3 (version
> > 3.1.4-3) and kdebase (version 3.1.4-1) package with the cygwin
> > installer.
>
> They were shown as installed, so I changed them to "Reinstall".  Just to
> make sure, I ran "rebaseall -v" again.
>
> > Additional you should try the following step
> >
> > 1. run
> > 	assistant &
> >
> > If that command wasn't found, you should (re)install the qt-3 package.
>
> *That* ran fine, and KDE is now working just fine.
>
> Thank you *very* much Ralf!
>
> So *re*installing kdelibs-3 and kdebase was the trick.  I guess when I
> uninstalled all of KDE first, *then* reinstalled it, something must have
> broken even though it was *shown* as installed.
>
> Now the only question is why it won't install "kdenetwork-updates-3: bug
> fix of KDE network package" (3.1.4-1-u2).  It's flagged, I install, re-run
> setup, and it's *still* flagged -- it never "takes" no matter how many
> times I install it.

May be an installer problem. Please run the following command and submit the 
results 

grep "kdenetwork" /etc/setup/installed.db 

Ralf