[NTLUG:Discuss] KDE problems

[Fred]

Hey, fellow gurus, help, please. I am running Mdk8.0/kde2.1 and wanted to
upgrade to kde 3.0, so I went to kde and followed the 
instructions and when I ran "urpmi *" it hosed my system. I now have a fu'ed
box that has no gui and I really don't have a lot of time to 
screw around with it. Mr. Murphy, and all that.

Anyway, I assume (bad word, that) that I still have all my config data.... I
also have about 8 gigs of room on /home2 that I can use for 
temp backup, so no probs there.... 

What I would like is some ideas about the best way to procede to restore the
system without wiping out the rest of what is there. I 
have the original 8.0 cds, so doing an rpm -i on all the kde packages would
probably get it going. I worry about finding all the config 
data first, though. 

Next question is what happened in the first place? Why did a simple upgrade
process hose up the system? Are the files in the 
mandrake8.0/kde system that buggy and, if so, why in hell are they still there?

Thanks in advance,
Fred

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