On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 23:47 -0400, Jack Gates wrote: > On Thursday 07 September 2006 23:41, Craig White wrote: > > ---- > > inane windows type of problem resolution doesn't make sense on > > Linux or Linux applications. > > That was condescending and totally not necessary. ---- not at all condescending is telling you that you apparently couldn't see past that sentence to the one that followed which told you what to do. condescending is telling you that you really need to learn to ask questions the smart way... http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html condescending is telling you in bite size chunks that you might be able to understand...Linux uses plain text configuration files. You can edit them or move them aside if you feel that it is a configuration problem. Linux applications report standard output and error output directly into the console that launched them so you actually have an opportunity to see it report an error. If that fails, you can strace the process (hint - type 'man strace') Now, if you want to remove the rpm and then re-install it be my guest but that is typically the methodology of troubleshooting Windows applications since there really aren't any tools to do that. Craig
