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From: Ian <omega21@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again....
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:27:44
Message-Id: 71e46d510601200623u6e5ce0dct74da69ec328fef6d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... by Richard Fish
1 Thanks for the help!
2
3 I want to get rid of 3.5 because of incompatabilities with my mouse (through
4 ksynaptics)
5 and themes. Ill probably install it again when 3.5.1 is out or something. :)
6 Ian
7
8 On 1/20/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote:
9 >
10 > On 1/19/06, Ian <omega21@×××××.com> wrote:
11 > > What I want, is to end up with kde 3.4.3 (only) installed, without arts.
12 > > I would first like to unmerge both 3.5 and 3.4.1, but as I used the
13 > split
14 > > ebuilds Im not sure how....
15 >
16 > How about:
17 >
18 > cd /var/db/pkg
19 > for x in kde-base/*-3.5*; do
20 > emerge --unmerge $x
21 > done
22 >
23 > That will get the main packages. Then you can do:
24 >
25 > equery belongs `find /usr/kde/3.5 -type f | head -n 1`
26 > emerge --unmerge <package name from above command>
27 >
28 > The above will find one non-KDE (by which I mean not part of the KDE
29 > 3.5 release) and unmerge it. Repeat the above commands until no more
30 > files remain in /usr/kde/3.5. You may want to keep a list of these
31 > packages to re-merge with kde 3.4.
32 >
33 > For the 3.4.1 KDE, don't worry about it, as the 3.4.3 packages will
34 > overwrite them. You cannot have both 3.4.1 and 3.4.3 installed at the
35 > same time.
36 >
37 > BTW, why do want to do this? Why not just keep 3.5?
38 >
39 > -Richard
40 >
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43 >
44 >
45
46
47 --
48 Cheers,
49 Ian