KDE's gone down!
 

Im running RH 7.3, near complete installation. Last night I was trying to install freecraft, but needed a newer version of libpng.so and I uninstalled the old one, and tried to install the new one but it didnt work. But then I forgot about it and went to bed, shutting down my computer first. This morning when I tried to boot up, it automatically logs me in, and loads KDE, only I get two errors and it never will load(kcminit is one error I think). I kill X, try to load into gnome, couldnt figure out how, loaded just into failsafe X or whatever that xconsole is. I opened mozilla from that, but it wouldnt accept input from my keyboard the second mozilla opened. So finally here I am in windows. I guess I need to download and install libpng.so2 or whatever it is.
Thanks, Thomas

You should have a libpng ... .rpm on your RedHat install CDs. You can probably just use rpm to re-install/refresh that package to put libpng.so.2 back out on your machine. If you need a later version, i.e. libpng.so.3, there is a Mandrake package on http://rpmfind.net that you could download and try to install with rpm. Make sure of which version freecraft is asking before doing all this.

If you need something from the Net in such situation use text web browser (like lynx or links).

I did a ctrl + alt + F3 to switch desktops, logged in as root, put in my RH 7.3 disk one. cd to the RPMS directory did a find libpng*.rpm (because ls brought out alot of stuff!) and installed it with a rpm -i libpng.rpm switched back to ctrl + alt + F7 (which is the default X desktop I believe) killed x with a ctrl + alt + backspace and when KDE started back up, boom, here I am in mozilla, listenin to xmms if that tells you anything.

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