kmail crashing - how to uninstall?

[Ben Stringer]

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 12:14, Rory Gleeson wrote:
> I've been having a problem of kmail crashing (signal 11) in Gnome or KDE
> desktop in  Fedora Core 2 Test 3 since installation.  It opens and then
> immediately crashes every time.

Should really be raising this on the Fedora test list.

> 
> I'd like to uninstall it but it seems like it's bundled on the isos with
> other kde programs.
> 
> Can someone tell me what KDE file kmail in bundled in?  And is it safe
> to uninstall it, as I don't know what else is bundled with it.  

# which kmail
/usr/bin/kmail
# rpm -q -f /usr/bin/kmail
kdenetwork-3.1.4-1

So, if you want to remove kmail, you would need to 
# rpm -e kdenetwork

But you may find other things depend on that package.

# rpm -q --whatrequires kdenetwork
kdenetwork-devel-3.1.4-1
# rpm -q --whatrequires kdenetwork-devel
no package requires kdenetwork-devel

So, you should be able to:

# rpm -e kdenetwork kdenetwork-devel

> 
> I'm thinking of removing that package and them downloading that package
> from the development tree and installing it, to see if it resolves any
> issues.

You may also want to read up on the "verify" option in rpm (man rpm)

> 
> I'm new to removing/adding packages in Linux, so any tips would be
> welcomed.

Hope this helps, 

Cheers, Ben