Re: Ximian Desktop 2 Woes

[Bob Arendt <rda rincon com>]

The primary problem seems to be version conflict between Ximian & RH.
I did this to back out of a Ximian install:
   rpm -qa | grep -i ximian > /tmp/x
   rpm -e --justdb `cat /tmp/x`

This assumes that ximian still adds the word 'ximian' to each package.
This removes the entries from the database, without removing the
functional applications.  rpm installs (via RHN?) will overlay the ximian
binaries with the RH9 rpm's.  The main gotcha is that you may have
to respecify categories or major applications.  I might have had to
add "--force" on the "rpm -e" command.

Hope this helps
-Bob Arendt

Gerry Tool wrote:
> Robert L Cochran wrote:
>
> > I liked the slick Ximian look myself when I installed it once long ago.
> > That was before Red Hat Network came around. Then I wanted to upgrade to
> > another Red Hat release, but the Release Notes had this nastygram about
> > issues with Ximian Gnome, and I didn't know how to uninstall it. So I
> > did a fresh install rather than an upgrade of the new Red Hat release.
> > I don't know if Ximian has an uninstaller. Maybe it does. Have you
> > checked their web site to see what needs to be done if you want to
> > uninstall it?
>
> I checked their web site and faqs.  No uninstall feature uncovered.  The 
> install involved 371MB of packages, so I doubt there is any easy way to 
> back out.
>
> Gerry