you know i had the same problem/hardware. it went away when i increased the size of my swap file. if you really want to get rid of all the gnome/kde rpms rpm -e `rpm -qa |grep kde` 0.02c HTH ---lem On Tuesday 13 March 2001 8:45 pm, you wrote: > hello all > > using mandrake 7.2 on 64mb > gnome & kde performs awfully (hd keeps on reading, is that thrashing?) > > i want to uninstall the 2 but what packages? > also, if i uninstall them, e.g. if i uninstall kde, will > those k* applications still work on bare X or icewm? > could i "downgrade" to the kde|gnome (only the wm) in rh6.2 but > still run the newer apps? > > extra, i have rpms of sources here (for rh6.2) & i have tried > compiling vim & installed it (before i installed mdk), > does `make install` leave a log, because i can't `rpm -q -f` the files. > is there a way to modify whatever database rpm is using to > reflect those manually added things (e.g. make file "f" be associated > with package "p" so that when i uninstall "p", "f" would also be > deleted) > > tia > > __________________________________ > www.edsamail.com > _ > Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at > http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- .--. Lemuel C. Tomas office://+63.2.894.3592/ ( () ) Q Linux Solutions, Inc. `--\\ A Philippine Open Source Solutions Co. http://www.q-linux.com/ _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
