Update to KDE 3.5 cleared installed apps from kpackage

aldar · 12-06-2005, 07:44 PM

After I upgraded to KDE 3.5 I noticed that Kpackage no longer listed anything as installed, new, upgraded, nothing. Anyway to "refresh" it and get the installed apps listed again?
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After looking around a bit, it seems I've lost settings for other things too. i.e Xsane, kopete, etc.
Hmmm, might not have upgraded if I knew I was going to loose settings for things. Shouldn't it have just kept the settings for most things?

BTW, I upgraded by downloading all the *tgz file from a mirror, then ran upgradepkg --instal-new *.tgz

Macky · 12-06-2005, 10:02 PM

You are not alone, same for me, Kpackage doesnt list anything anymore...

hoofer · 01-09-2006, 05:25 AM

Same for me, I guess.
Kpackage and Qtswaret don't show anything.
Even worse, I can't start X anymore, when it says "Starting X11 session", or something like that, it just stops, does nothing.

mirto · 01-09-2006, 01:07 PM

you did that as root? if so you need to configure kpackage to work with slack packages tgz. I'm not using 3.5 anymore since it has a boring bug so I downgrade to 3.4.3 just waiting for 3.5.1 (they sad that the bug is now fixed).

raska · 01-09-2006, 01:19 PM

I've some days with 3.5 and hadn't notice this issue... just out of curiosity I opened Kpackage as root and listed everything ... looks like a permissions trouble. Where should I head at?

hoofer · 01-09-2006, 01:40 PM

After some googling and lq'ing I think that maybe my problem is actually swaret-related. It's kind of hard to track it down, cause I just did a clean 10.2 install, then upgraded to 2.6.15 kernel, upgraded to kde 3.5, and a million other things in between, but up to that point (kde) everything seemed fine. I first noticed that the packages were missing in kpackage around the same time I installed both swaret and qtswaret. I'm gonna try uninstalling them, and if it doesn't work I'm starting from scratch again (no swaret this time)

mirto · 01-09-2006, 01:44 PM

yeah, start up your linux box on kde click on K menu the chose to close the session or restart whatever... you WILL have a error message...

raska · 01-09-2006, 01:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hoofer

...I first noticed that the packages were missing in kpackage around the same time I installed both swaret and qtswaret.

I don't have those installed nor I use them. Any other idea?

mirto · 01-09-2006, 01:46 PM

hey I don't know but with me it works fine!! all I need to do was to configure kpackage!

raska · 01-09-2006, 01:58 PM

yeeeeeah! I got it solved!

I found out that Kpackage couldn't find installpkg as a normal user, though it did as root. I typed a which installpkg as root and received a /sbin/installpkg answer.

I said mmm so this was it ..., checked permissions:

Code:

# ls -l `which installpkg`
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root bin 16590 2004-05-29 19:20 /sbin/installpkg

and then made a link to it so it was on my PATH:

Code:

# ln -s /sbin/installpkg /usr/bin/

and now works with my user