I was trying to get KDE sound to work and in the process of Anthony Puglisi's valiant advice I had tried to rebuild kde-extra-sounds but kept running into "incorrect checksum" errors. At each I would delete the old file and download agin. Apparently, since I had installed kde3.3 via apt-get, fink thought all the checksums were incorrect (and perhaps they were but choosing "use existing file" didn't work and the rebuild would quit. After some frustration I had decided that I'd remove all of kde and reinstall from the binary with apt-get and forget sound. I tried to use Alexander's command "rm -rf ~/.kderc ~/.kde". But copy and paste was returning nothing in Terminal so, like a complete idiot I typed in the command and put a space in after ~/ and, of course, I began removing all of my files in that directory!! I quit terminal as soon as I could but still managed to screw things up seriously. I restored as much as I could from backup but apparently many hidden files were deleted in ~/ directory.
I now have a sort of functioning system and some Xwindows functionality but Gome launches with a "can't find settings daemon" error and a minimal desktop. I cannot launch Gimp or many other gnome apps and no kde apps (I got the "DCOPServer error" again and even starting it before launching a KDE app doesn't help, nor did it before I screwed things up with my attempt at getting sound for KDE).
Luckily, I think, all of my other files are intact and /sw never got touched so I have all of the .bin files. I have checked Fink w/ Commander and all of the same packages show up with the same status. I have rebuilt bundle-gnome, gnome-desktop and gnome-core but no change. Several packages won't rebuild or reinstall running into missing "libfreetype.la" errors among others.
My question is whether or not there is a saint out there that has a since of what I've done and where to start. Some of my thoughts are "fink update-all" (an enormous time commitment) or finding out, somehow, what files are missing and reinstalling those. I don't know really where to begin. I should mention that I also now have "Help" issues, particularly around Mac Help. Help seems to work for many other apps in OSX.
Of course I have read over and over about the rm command but I thought that I was savey enough- not the case!! My backup does not have hidden files, apparently, so I am stuck. Another though was to do a Software Restore and deal with that whole pain, abandon Fink, install YellowDogLinux and vow never try to use the command line again! Unfortunately I like the Unix/Linux apps on the Mac desktop and dual booting doesn't thrill me but if I can't somehow restore 2 years of Fink work I'll consider it as I cannot imagine starting all over, assuming that I could even get all the packages reinstalled.
Thanks to anyone out there and I vow never to use rm again!!
Brian
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