On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 13:13 +1000, Ben Stringer wrote: > On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 17:46 -0400, Beartooth wrote: > > I'm getting negligible use out of what ought to be my main machine, > > because I can't get it to display a Gnome desktop; and KDE with Gnome > > Panels and Gnome apps just gives me dangerous blood pressure. (It's fine > > for them as likes it, no doubt, but it's like some other GUIs -- every > > time I touch it, I dislike it more, alas!) > > > > This machine was doing perfectly fine with FC4. In fact, it did fine with > > FC5 -- at first. Then I went and tried out pup and pirut, and must have > > uninstalled something I shouldn't have -- and can't find again. > > For future reference, there is a cronjob that maintains a list of > installed rpms, in /var/log/rpmpkgs, rpmpkgs.1 etc. Doing a diff between > these files can show you what packages were installed, removed or > upgraded in the period between the cron runs. Probably only good for a > few weeks back though, as logrotate will only keep 5 or so versions. With pup and pirut being based on yum, perhaps they also update /var/log/yum.log; there may be clues there as to what as been deleted. As for downgrades, there's no "supported" way of doing it. It's do-able, but not easy, and I'd only try it as a last resort. To install gnome, try this: # yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop Environment' Paul.
