Search using RPM -qi [part of or all of the package name]
Do this after rebuilding the RPM DB. Once you find the package, then you can use the RPM -e [package name] to get rid of it.
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Search using RPM -qi [part of or all of the package name]
Do this after rebuilding the RPM DB. Once you find the package, then you can use the RPM -e [package name] to get rid of it.
Can he do that without root access?
He can login to the console with root from what I understand. It's when he logs into an x windows session is where the trouble starts.
If he logs in as root and has permission issues at the console, then he has waaaaaaay bigger issues than KDE or Gnome not starting.
--TH13
thanks muert0 the su command works and i am currently in KDE now ! Thanks for the links too!
well the issue is that it wont login to X windows with root as primary means. Rest its working fine.
Also whenever it prompts me for the root privileges and i enter the pass it works perfectly. I would now like to resolve the issue of the root login.
Any ideas on that ?
Try rpm -q -a -last
This should list all rpms installed and list the most recently installed first. If it list to many for you to read what you need you could probably add a pipe to it like so:
rpm -q -a -last|more
Then just rpm -e {package name]
like the pimps0r said.
Oh, how familiar is this! It drives me *mad* the way linux won't let you do something to your own system - even if you're the only user of it! You would think if it allowed you to install an operating system in the first place it would give you the privileges to make changes to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mystery Man
It's a safety precaution so that people who don't know WTF they are doing don't screw the system up. You can pretty much set up sudo so you barely have to run in root at all.
The trouble is you can just type "sudo" then your password and carry on screwing the system up as much as you like.
If you set <user alias> ALL=ALL you can do anything. If you take time to set it up right it's not going to just let any user do anything. But that's for another thread.