On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:19 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In attempting to get out of dependency hell while installing mplayer, I > apparently upgraded my Fedora 8 desktop from KDE 3.5 to KDE 4.0. > > HELP!...KDE 4 is a bloody disaster. At the moment, I have no KDE "Start" > icon, no panel, and worse yet, NO KONSOLE. I eventually found that I can > start an xterm, by using the 'Run' command, but xterm is not konsole. > The screen appears unstable too... > > WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE KDE 4 RPM? So I can uninstall it. And what is > the name of the kde 3.5 rpm. And what do I do to revert the packages > which were also upgraded in lockstep. > > And yes, I have no banished the fedora-development.repo file. > Geoff > "rpm -qa | grep ^kde" should give you a list of the kde packages. When you perform a removal the dependent packages should also get removed.