F 9 problems to install

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:56:40 +0200, Per Anton Ronning wrote:
	[...]
> That's right, it appears at the bottom of the screen, where you can
> choose between Gnome and KDE. It did not catch my eye until you
> mentioned it.
> (My eyes stand in the way of eyesight) So, I  chose KDE, but it did not
> take effect.  I still got the Gnome desktop after login.

	Are you using yum, pirut, or gpk (gnome-packagekit) to add and 
remove software, or some combination? 

	On one machine recently, I found at an early stage that pirut 
showed KDE not installed at all; but I use Konqueror, K3B, and one or two 
others often. So I told it to install it; I could swear all I did was 
checkmark KDE and go through its list of options, as I've always done.

	I have taken to rebooting fairly often when I do much adding & 
removing, as a precaution -- if anything awful happens that will only 
show up on a reboot, then I see it while I remember what I'd been doing. 
It paid off heavily in this instance : I couldn't get to gnome!

	I did get to pirut, and discovered that all of gnome had somehow 
gotten unchecked. 

	I also made triple sure before closing pirut that both KDE and 
Gnome were checked, and that I had switchdesk.

	(Pirut is no longer the default for add/remove in F9; another 
alternative is synaptic.)


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