[ale] kde question

[Sean Kilpatrick]

Jim,
earlier Sunday I ran yum update. Two packages were installed, 44 were
upgraded (including a new kernel) and 2 were removed. At the beginning
of that process were these lines:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: repos.mia.quadranet.com
 * epel: reflector.westga.edu
 * extras: ftpmirror.your.org
 * nux-dextop: li.nux.ro
 * rpmforge: mirror.teklinks.com
 * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.nexcess.net
 * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.nexcess.net
 * updates: mirror.lug.udel.edu

After that was done I ran yum clean all and got this:

[root at localhost kilpatms]# yum clean all

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Cleaning repos: adobe-linux-x86_64 base epel extras nux-dextop rpmforge
rpmfusion-free-updates
              : rpmfusion-nonfree-updates updates
Cleaning up everything
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors

Looking in /etc/yum.repos.d I see that only two epel repos are listed:
epel.repo and epel-testing.repo


Continuing to work through this I next tried to check the repo files and
started by looking at epel.repo.  
 May have found part of the problem  -- and another headache. Epel,
itself, is enabled, but epel-debuginfo and epel-source are not.
(enabled=0)
So I reset the perms to rw rw rw and tried to edit the file so enable
the two branches that were not.  Can't do it.  I get this message:

"The document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write to the
file."  That message was generated by Kwrite, from the GUI.


Any clues as to why I can not edit these files?

ran the rpm query and the output lists kdepimlibs-akonadi and pimlibs
-4.10 but not kdepim itself.

Have removed and reinstalled kdepim. All 22M of it, including the
dependency (kdepim-libs.  But when I rerun the rpm query only the two
pimlib files are listed. The base kdepim is not listed, even though yum
reports it has just been installed.  And I can't find it anywhere. I
have no idea where yum has hidden this file, but it isn't in the usual
places.  I will close out the shell and do a logout/login.  If a miracle
occurs and this program should magically appear I will send out a
BINGO!! within the next few minutes.  But I have my doubts.

Sean

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On Sun, 2016-02-14 at 20:16 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Sean,
> 
> Verify you have a working epel repo
> Yum check update
> You should see epel being checked. If not, you need to get that working
> first. Yum remove, yum clean all, yum install. See prior in this thread for
> link to repo rpm. Do another yum clean all and another yum check update to
> verify epel.
> 
> Next check what kde stuff you do have
> Rpm -qa | grep -i kde
> 
> Look for kdepim. You need kdepim-lib as well. If you're missing either, yum
> remove kdepim. Yum install kdepim.
> Logout. Login. It should show up in the menu.
> On Feb 14, 2016 3:31 PM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the suggestion.
> > yum says it isn't in the repos. "Nothing to do."
> >
> > Sean
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 2016-02-14 at 15:03 -0500, James Taylor wrote:
> > > This may be of no use at all to this discussion, but just in case...
> > > I'm on openSUSE, and when I look at the dependencies for my installed
> > kontact package, it shows this:
> > >
> > >
> > > kontact - Personal Information Manager
> > >
> > > Version:
> > > 4.14.10-1.3
> > >
> > > Provides:
> > > application()
> > > libkontactprivate.so.4()(64bit)
> > > application(kde4/Kontact.desktop)
> > > kde4-kontact = 4.3.0
> > > kontact = 4.14.10-1.3
> > > kontact(x86-64) = 4.14.10-1.3
> >
> >
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