Uninstall Totem, lost GUI??

[browntb]

Firstly, I'm new to Fedora and Linux in general, so bare with me...

I installed Fedora 8 with Gnome on my spare dell laptop a few weeks ago and so far have loved it. I don't use it for a whole lot of things, but I enjoy playing with it for some web design and pragramming projects.

Well I was clicking around, getting a little familiar with everything and decided to take a look at what programs were installed and what I needed and didn't need. I ran across the "Sounds and Video" applications and figured since I wasn't doing any movie watching or music listening on the machine I could take everything off. Seemed to be a mistake...

The next time I booted up I was greeted with an "xclock" and a shell prompt, but not other menus or windows or my normal background

So what I'm thinking is that uninstalling totem uninstalled something else that Gnome needed. Any ideas?

I am now fiddling with the shell commands to try to connect to my wireless network (it's not as easy as clicking on those two little blinking computers and saying "connect") and will then attempt to reinstall totem when I get connected.

This is all actually a good learning experience for me and I'm sort of liking the no GUI thing, but it would be nice to have back for the time being!

[Dies]

Originally Posted by browntb

This is all actually a good learning experience for me and I'm sort of liking the no GUI thing, but it would be nice to have back for the time being!

LOL. That's a good attitude towards it though.

But the truth is ( depending on how much stuff you actually removed ) if you don't have anything invested into this install it might be easier to just do a quick re-install and choose to customize it during installation then carefully go through and get rid of anything you don't need. If it still installs something you told it not to then you know you can't safely remove that.

If you still want to try to salvage it then when you do get your network back try

su -
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment" -y

to get back everything you lost.

Then you can start removing stuff again.
Only this time do it slowly and make sure to look at what is being removed, read the description and if you're still unsure then ask here if you can live without it.

ifconfig
iwconfig
ifup

commands might be helpful...

As always to see the man page for a command just do

man iwconfig

or whatever the command is.

BTW you had to have removed more than just Totem since Totem happily uninstalls by itself.

[browntb]

Thanks for that!

I'm working on the network now. I'd like to play around with it a bit and try to figure it out for myself before I ask, but I may be posting again!

Cheers,

[RJFUatHOME]

You might want to take a look at using some of the other graphical package management tools.

Synaptic and Smart-GUI are nice ones to consider for deleting stuff since they'll pop up a dialog immediately when you click to remove something, indicating what dependencies you are going to wipe out also by that seemingly "simple" delete option.