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From: Ian <omega21@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again....
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:10:34
Message-Id: 71e46d510601270001l7aa9b9f2m38c441c6ada162b2@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... by Richard Fish
1 Hi again.
2
3 On 1/20/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote:
4 >
5 > On 1/19/06, Ian <omega21@×××××.com> wrote:
6 > > What I want, is to end up with kde 3.4.3 (only) installed, without arts.
7 > > I would first like to unmerge both 3.5 and 3.4.1, but as I used the
8 > split
9 > > ebuilds Im not sure how....
10 >
11 > How about:
12 >
13 > cd /var/db/pkg
14 > for x in kde-base/*-3.5*; do
15 > emerge --unmerge $x
16 > done
17 >
18 > That will get the main packages. Then you can do:
19 >
20 > equery belongs `find /usr/kde/3.5 -type f | head -n 1`
21
22
23 At this point, Im not sure what I should do based on my results:
24 # equery belongs `find /usr/kde/3.5 -type f | head -n 1`
25 [ Searching for file(s) /usr/kde/3.5/env/agent-startup.sh in *... ]
26 Avalon pkg #
27
28 emerge --unmerge <package name from above command>
29 >
30 > The above will find one non-KDE (by which I mean not part of the KDE
31 > 3.5 release) and unmerge it. Repeat the above commands until no more
32 > files remain in /usr/kde/3.5. You may want to keep a list of these
33 > packages to re-merge with kde 3.4.
34 >
35 > For the 3.4.1 KDE, don't worry about it, as the 3.4.3 packages will
36 > overwrite them. You cannot have both 3.4.1 and 3.4.3 installed at the
37 > same time.
38 >
39 > BTW, why do want to do this? Why not just keep 3.5?
40 >
41 > -Richard
42 >
43 > --
44 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
45 >
46 >
47 But there are still a few things in /usr/kde/3.5
48 Dirs: env, share, shutdown
49 What should I do?
50 Thanks!
51
52 --
53 Cheers,
54 Ian

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Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com>