Hi everybody.

I'm using Fedora 8.

I'm still kind of a newbie, so I tried to uninstall packages from kde I thought weren't useful. By doing so, and because of dependencies, I must also have uninstalled important packages because while still using kde I had less programs in the main menu (alt + f1), and i couldn't even start the konsole (a message told me something like it didn't exist). I also noticed that in the package manager the option kde was unchecked, as if wasn't installed at all.

After restarting my computer, i got the login window and after typing my username and password, I didn't get into kde (as usual), but only to Twm (which was a windows manager, as I've just found out). Using Twm I have access to the Konsole and to firefox. I restarted my pc to see if could change to kde in the login window (option session) but I don't see kde (nor gnome because it wasn't installed). I only see default session and last session, any of which uses twm.

Using twm, I've already done "yum groupinstall (kdm desktop environment)"; the installation was successful, but I still don't see kde in the login window.

I've tried startkde and swtichdesktop in Twm, but i get "command not found".

What can I do?

Thanks for your help.
Yersin

I would first backup any important data. Then reinstall selecting the upgrade option.

Brian

You have uninstalled packages that you don't need,but you also deleted dependecies for those packages which are needed for some other packages/programs to work.That is the problem with rpm.Kdm isn't the same thing as KDE.

Solved.(thanks to Hlingler, forums.fedoraforum.org)

I installed switchdesk (yum install switchdesk and switchdesk-gui) and I could see kde as an option in the session manager. I hope everything goes well now, otherwise I'll come back.