earlier on last night i used swaret to update the packages that i needed since i never updated anything since i installed slack 3 months ago. The problem i am having now is after installing the packages that i need, whenever i try to open konqueror to view my files it tells me it is not supported and when i try to go into konqueror's settings to look around to see if anything is unchecked or maybe i could fix it myself, when i click on certain icons i get this:

Now I am guessing this library had to exist sometime before unless i couldnt be able to use konqueror at all, now how can i find out how to re-link this library so i can end this problem or is the problem deeper than i might think?Now i tried to look in my control center and it is telling me other library files similar to the one i posted above(all ending in .la) are missing too. Did I do something wrong when i updated or left something out?

Just a thought:

Did you remove the running of "ldconfig" at startup? (it is ran automatically
when I do a full install).

Or just try running ldconfig at the CLI.

May or may not work, but it might be worth a try.
Start simple then move on.

My computer hasnt been restarted in over 28 days, so i dont think that is the problem. Also, how can i run ldconfig at CLI? What exactly does that mean?

ldconfig updates your shared libraries.
(since you updated, thats what put it in my mind)

at the prompt - not sure off hand, but I think you have to be root or SU,

just type:

ldconfig

and then it churns for a bit and its done. Simple and should only take a minute or 2.

worth a try anyway.

tw001_tw has a good point, I hope that will fix it.

If not, see if you can make any sense from my ramblings:

'An error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned control module'

I had a similar situation with the KDE font installer a while back.

Your 'missing' library file comes from the kdebase package, but you have the newer version, it is the module that is calling for this file that is out of date.

later versions of kde seem to favour the form kcm_konqhtml.la over libkcm_konqhtml.la,
that is they changed their naming system slightly.

What version of kde did you upgrade to? It looks like kde 3.2 is the latest in slackware 10,
the first thing I would do is check that all the kde and qt packages in your mirror's
/slackware/slackware-10.0/patches/packages/ dir ties up with what you have locally in /var/log/packages/

if that all looks ok, try reinstalling the kde packages
swaret --reinstall kde
should do it. Just to be on the safe side, dont do it with kde running. Reboot to runlevel 3 and do it from
the command line. (Modify /etc/inittab to change runlevel, use 'pico /etc/inittab' as root to change it back)


(Only if you upgraded to current: then you must make sure that the imlib package is also installed, this is new since kde 3.3)

tobyl
(ps. insert 'at you own risk' disclaimer here...)

Now I have a new problem, i cannot get my kde to start up at all, i went with the idea of checking the libraries and then using swaret to reinstall kde. X -config/startkde or startx doesnt work anymore, i just get a blank screen now.What i realized was that during the upgrade some of the kde packages download failed, so maybe that is why certain libraries cannot be found. But what really confuses me is when i try to use swaret to upgrade again to see if i can re-dowload these packages, swaret installed some of the other packages that failed during downloading before also but not the kde one's, am i missing something? I guess for now i will just use fluxbox or another of the desktops until i figure this problem out, any help would be appreciated..

So due to some files not being downloaded, thus not installed, you have a
partially upgrade kde?

If so, did you try:

swaret --upgrade kde

and have "DEPENDENCY=1" in your swaret.conf ?

Also, what versions of kde are we dealing with here.
Did you just update kde 3.2 from '10.0' or go to 3.3 in 'current'?

N|k0N
Also, bear in mind that swaret will use packages already downloaded to /var/swaret before re-downloading new packages. I think you may need to delete from there and start again. (hope you have dsl!) It may be worth trying a different mirror if you are getting a corrupted package(s).
tobyl

swaret --purge... if you want to be safe... if you don't have the bandwidth go into /var/swaret and manually delete the ones that failed

Since it was my first time installing the update it should be from kde 3.2 on 10.0. I dont think it is 3.3 to current. I purged the files and im going to start over again i could be wrong though. Im going to try the update, i have cable(9mbps down/1.5mbps up) so i should be fine with the online speeds.Hopefully this works, dont want to ever use windows as far as i am concerned again.

I purged all the files in /var/swaret/ to make it easier for me but whenever i use swaret --upgrade or update, it tells me all the files are already updated. So i improvised and used swaret --dep and then swaret --dep kde it said all the files are there for the kde even though i saw that some files failed in the log file. So i am confused here, a lil lost. Did i miss something? Anyone have any ideas, becausen when i try to run startx my screen just stays blank, when i try to use strartkde i get this message Hopefully this helps someone to help me solve this frustrating problem. Using lynx isnt so bad, but it gets kinda dull after a while..

N|k0N,

Since you have two issues here, could you post 2 files?
(or maybe 1 issue)

/etc/swaret.conf & /etc/X11/xorg.conf

I'm sure that will help a bit.

Also, have you tried running xorgconfig?

-tw

i just ran xorgconfig and hopefully that might work. I will post both of those directories when i use my laptop with lynx(if i can fiure out how to do it...

N|k0N,
what I had in mind was swaret --reinstall kde.
I don't think swaret --upgrade or update would work on its own, as you did this already. I think your X problems may disappear once you have a good kde setup.
so swaret purge - update - reinstall kde, in that order (hopefully)

tobyl

I tried using swaret in the exact order that you mentioned to use it and when i use startx or startkde i still cannot get anything to show up on my screen. I am lost and confused right about now, when i ran swaret and purged everything, then updated and then reinstalled kde this time all the files installed and didnt fail like last time, but i am still stuck, Dont know what to do......