Since I am a Redhat user, I use the rpm command. If you do a man on rpm it
will instruct you on everything you need to know on installing, removing, and
upgrading your software.
For example if you type:
rpm -q -a | grep gnome
it should list all the packages to do with gnome
then:
rpm -e --nodeps package name
this will uninstall the package you specify.
rpm -Uvh package name
will install and/or upgrade the specified package
You mentioned KDE and Gnome are you trying top get a way from gnome? I could
see why you would. I feel it is still a little early for gnome. It's real
pretty but not quite what I am, looking for. I use KDE and have had good
success.
If you uninstall gnome and install KDE. the rpm package should setup all the
startx stuff. Below you had mentioned that it runs your cpu up quite high, I
havn't experienced this and might not hurt to uninstall and reinstall those
packages.
Good Luck
Andrew
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Michael Picco wrote:
>Hi Andrew,
>
>Gnome is what I currently have running, along with Enlightenment. These two are what Brian is
>suggesting I move away from. My Alpha CD has KDE on it, but I'm a bit unclear how I remove
>Gnome and Enlightenment and have KDE installed so that takes place of Gnome when I run
>the 'startx' command at the prompt.
>
>Thanks for the help.
>
>Michael
>
>
>Andrew wrote:
>
>> You could try Gnome
>>
>> Also the info in top is given in KDE under the Process Management icon - it
>> includes top in a much more manageable format.
>>
>> Things useful in top Top -
>>
>> 1- Processes useing to much CPU, memory, swap.
>>
>> 2 - free memory, used memory
>>
>> 3- try to coralate the amount of free memory to used swap. It may indicate
>> where bottlenecks are.
>>
>> On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Michael Picco wrote:
>> >Hi Brian,
>> >
>> >What would you recommend as an alternative window manager, KDE perhaps?
>> >
>> >Being the newbie that I am, I've never heard of TOP. It seems to give me a lot of info! What should I be on the lookout for when I run it?
>> >
>> >Thanks for the tip.
>> >
>> >Michael
>> >
>> >
>> >Brian E. Lavender wrote:
>> >
>> >> Michael,
>> >>
>> >> harry and I are working here on Debian. he says get rid of gnome and enlightenment. Try a different window manager. I would run top and see how much of your
>> >> resources are being used. i have 128 megs and it seems to get all sucked up with
>> >> window managers and X.
>> >>
>> >> brian
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 09:24:26PM -0700, Michael Picco wrote:
>> >> > Having had this Multia running for a few days, I'm noticing that any
>> >> > time I click on something, it seems to take quite a while for the
>> >> > system to respond. The box has 64Meg of RAM and a 4.3GB HD, which I
>> >> > had thought would be plenty. It's running Gnome and Enlightenment.
>> >> > Any ideas of where to look to get it running faster?
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> >
>> >> > Michael
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Brian Lavender
>> >> http://www.brie.com/brian/
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