kde 4.4 and kdeinit problem

justwantin · 02-28-2010, 03:51 PM

Perhaps someone can give me a heads up.

I have just installed Alien Bob's kde 4.4 packages as per his README instructions over a fresh install of current as of 31 Jan.

I can open a kde session but have problems with running kde applications. Non kde applications such as Firefox, Scanlite, Geany, Gopdit open fine but so far kde applications are hit or miss.

I could launch kmail but not others. Kwrite from quicklaunch gave me a "KDEInit could not launch /usr/bin/kwrite in a pop up but konqueror, dolphin, kcalc to name a few just don't launch with a click and leave no error messages.

I have tried running them from XFC's terminal and I get the following:

Quote:

bash-3.1$ dolphin
bash: /usr/bin/dolphin: cannot execute binary file
bash-3.1$ ls -l /usr/bin/dolphin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 631240 2010-02-06 03:41 /usr/bin/dolphin

Any help would be appreciated

justwantin · 02-28-2010, 04:37 PM

OK, laugh if you want to, I'm going to put this in the silly me basket.

We had a power out while downloading the kde packages. The only thing I can think of is when I resumed downloading I was downloading 64 bit packs and not the 32 bit packs. I had both x86 and x86_64 versions of some packs when I installed hence some things were working and others, i.e. 64bit, were not.

I uninstalled all, deleted the 64 bit packs, reinstalled and it all seems in order now.

mlangdn · 03-01-2010, 01:16 AM

Far be it from me to laugh - I've experienced lots of similar gotcha's.