How to uninstall old KDE

Job 317 job317 at mailvault.com
Tue Mar 9 22:08:49 GMT 2004


I'll give it a try. I thought 'arts' also had to be removed (from
another poster's comment). Also, what about 'qt'? 

Thanks for your help,

JOB


On  9-Mar-2004 22:45:11 +0100, you wrote:
> Job 317 wrote:
> > If updating to KDE3.2 is best done after uninstalling the old KDE
> > (3.1.4) what  would be the best way to do that?
> > 
> > I'm on a RedHat 9 machine and the KDE3.1.4 distro is all RPM-based.
> 
> I would recommend that you uninstall the RPMs individually.  You can
use 
> the option "--nodeps" so you don't have to worry about removing them
in the 
> correct order.  To get a list of most of the KDE RPMs installed,
execute:
> 
> 	rpm -qa |grep kde
> 
> You also need to uninstall Quanta if you have that installed and are 
> upgrading.  For any RPM you have installed, also look for
corresponding 
> 'devel' package.
> 
> It is also possible to uninstall multiple packages with RPM, but this
is 
> somewhat risky.
> 
> Or you can open KPackage and check the RPMs you want to uninstall, 
> uninstall them, and them immediately logout of KDE.
> 
> --
> JRT
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