[CentOS] Die, KDE! Die! (Sticking with Gnome and Yum Conflicts)

Thu Aug 18 02:47:59 UTC 2005
Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu>

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:28:22AM +0900, Dave Gutteridge enlightened us:
> Okay, I experimented with both KDE and Gnome, and decided I'd rather use 
> Gnome. After making this decision, I wanted to remove KDE, because I 
> like to keep my hard drive as lean as possible.
> I accomplished this, or so I thought, by running:
> # yum groupremove "KDE (K Desktop Environment)".
> It seemed to work. Removed a whole bunch 'o stuff.
> 
> Okay, but then I wanted to install k3B, the CD burning software, which 
> I'm led to believe is designed for KDE, but runs in Gnome. I did a YUM 
> install and got the following error:
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# yum install k3b
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up Repos
> dag                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> kbs-CentOS-Extras         100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> kbs-CentOS-Misc           100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> dag       : ################################################## 2471/2471
> kbs-CentOS: ################################################## 1210/1210
> kbs-CentOS: ################################################## 60/60
> update    : ################################################## 95/95
> base      : ################################################## 1406/1406
> extras    : ################################################## 32/32
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> Finished
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for k3b to pack into transaction set.
> k3b-0.11.14-2.i386.rpm    100% |=========================|  47 kB    00:00
> ---> Package k3b.i386 0:0.11.14-2 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libkwalletclient.so.1 for package: k3b
> --> Processing Dependency: libkdecore.so.4 for package: k3b
> --> Processing Dependency: libkdefx.so.4 for package: k3b
> --> Processing Dependency: libartskde.so.1 for package: k3b
> --> Processing Dependency: libkdeui.so.4 for package: k3b
> --> Processing Dependency: libkdesu.so.4 for package: k3b
> --> Processing Dependency: libDCOP.so.4 for package: k3b
> --> Processing Dependency: libkparts.so.2 for package: k3b
> --> Processing Dependency: libkio.so.4 for package: k3b
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package kdelibs.i386 6:3.3.1-3.11 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Conflict: redhat-menus conflicts kdelibs < 6:3.4.0-5
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: redhat-menus conflicts with kdelibs < 6:3.4.0-5
> 
> What is this conflict? I could understand if there were missing 
> dependancies. But since I removed KDE, how can there be a conflict?
> 

It looks like from your last e-mail you have a redhat-menus and
redhat-artwork from some source other than CentOS (kde-redhat, perhaps?) 

If you remove those versions of redhat-menus and redhat-artwork, I think
you'll find things back to default, and that will resolve this issue as well.

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics 
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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