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 -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263