Boy did I learn my lesson not to play around as root! :-[ Alright, I decided to install some Texstar RPM's last night and some said they needed the latest RPM's from the KDE3 CVS - so, I figured, what the heck, why not install them? So, silly me, I decided to install *some* of the RPM's from KDE3 CVS. After doing that and restarting X, all my icons were gone, my background was gone and ANY clicking on the desktop didn't work - right click, left click, middle click, NOTHING. So, I figured this is probably because I didn't install ALL of the CVS RPM's - so I began to. I got all of them install except for the libqt3 ones now and I CAN'T GET THOSE TO INSTALL. When I get the error message that the newer libqt3 conflicts with the older libqt3-devel, I hit 'force' because the older libqt3-devel is going to be replaced by the newer anyhow. After that though, I get another error that some files from the newer libqt3 conflict with files from the older libqt3-devel. The only option I got was to press 'OK' so I did, but apparently when that type of error comes up it does not install the RPM. So, then I decided to try doing libqt3-devel first - same error only backwards. So, I figured, maybe it'll work if I wipe out those files and then it'll write new ones right? Wrong. I even went so far as to delete the /usr/lib/qt3 directory entirely - I STILL get the errors even though I can no longer get into X because the files really aren't there. So, I can only assume that some reference to those files is somewhere else in hosw Linux handles RPM's and it assumes they are still there and therefore that so is the conflict. I tried rpm -e on the old libqt3 RPM's and that didn't work - it said they weren't installed! I know for a fact they are 1) because they keep causing an error and 2) because I have been using KDE3 for the past 2 weeks! PLEASE HELP! Thank you SO much in advance!
Brian
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