KDEInit could not launch 'kmail'

Owen Gardiner owen.gardiner at gonwanda.com
Thu Aug 19 08:28:17 PDT 2004


Cheers,

There's LOTS of files not found. I don't understand it as I've tried a 
portupgrade  I have made 20 or so links so far.  I'll try portupgrade 
with a few more switches thrown in for good measure as I can now see 
which port needs upgrading (kdelibs-323_1)!

Thanks

Owen
====

Ciprian Badescu wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> Search for libkdeprint.so.x or libkdeprint.so and make a symblic link from
> libkdeprint.so.5 to that file. It's an ugly trick, but should work.
> 
> --
> Ciprian Badescu
> 
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Owen Gardiner wrote:
> 
> 
>>Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:35:26 +0200
>>From: Owen Gardiner <owen.gardiner at gonwanda.com>
>>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>>Subject: KDEInit could not launch 'kmail'
>>
>>I've installed KDE 3.23 on a machine running 5.21-release-p9 which has
>>x116.7 from X.ORG installed.
>>
>>I try to start kmail and get a message window of:
>>"KDEInit could not launch 'kmail'"
>>
>>If I copy the command properties of the kmail icon and run it from the
>>command line:
>>
>>kmail -caption "%c" %i %m
>>
>>I get the reply:
>>
>>/libexec/ld-elf.so1: Shared object "libkhtml.so.5" not found
>>
>>Ditto when trying to run "kedit"
>>from the command like I get:
>>/libexec/ld-elf.so1: Shared object "libkdeprint.so.5" not found
>>
>>Everything on the machine has been installed from "ports".
>>
>>I've tried to do portupgrades and pkgdb -uf and portsdb-Uu but apart
>>from seeing that some packages are ignores, some are skipped and one
>>fails I'm none the wiser.
>>
>>I've reinstalled kde to see if I've managed to do some harm whilst using
>>   pkgdb -F.  I "may" have wrongly answered some questions about "stale
>>dependencies" when using it.
>>
>>Help?
>>
>>Thanks in anticipation.
>>
>>Owen
>>
>>P.S. I've searched the freebsd mail archives to no avail.
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