On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 12:14, Rory Gleeson wrote: > I've been having a problem of kmail crashing (signal 11) in Gnome or KDE > desktop in Fedora Core 2 Test 3 since installation. It opens and then > immediately crashes every time. Should really be raising this on the Fedora test list. > > I'd like to uninstall it but it seems like it's bundled on the isos with > other kde programs. > > Can someone tell me what KDE file kmail in bundled in? And is it safe > to uninstall it, as I don't know what else is bundled with it. # which kmail /usr/bin/kmail # rpm -q -f /usr/bin/kmail kdenetwork-3.1.4-1 So, if you want to remove kmail, you would need to # rpm -e kdenetwork But you may find other things depend on that package. # rpm -q --whatrequires kdenetwork kdenetwork-devel-3.1.4-1 # rpm -q --whatrequires kdenetwork-devel no package requires kdenetwork-devel So, you should be able to: # rpm -e kdenetwork kdenetwork-devel > > I'm thinking of removing that package and them downloading that package > from the development tree and installing it, to see if it resolves any > issues. You may also want to read up on the "verify" option in rpm (man rpm) > > I'm new to removing/adding packages in Linux, so any tips would be > welcomed. Hope this helps, Cheers, Ben
