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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 10:33 AM

I've been struggling for the last week with an upgrade to KDE 3.4 which
didn't go well. Lots of things aren't working, mostly kicker applets.
Just now I was poking around and got some error messages which were
helpful. I'm including an example, but basically it looks like my
3.4 KDE programs are for some reason looking for shared libraries in
my /usr/kde/3.1 directory. How does KDE know where to look for libraries?
Here is an example of an error message I'm getting:

>The specified library taskbar could not be found
>The diagnostics is:
>/usr/kde/3.1/lib/kde3/kcm_taskbar.so: cannot open shared object file: NO such
>file or directory
>
>Possible reason:
> . An error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned control
> module
> . You have old third party modules lyring around

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 10:34 AM

Wes Gray wrote:
> I've been struggling for the last week with an upgrade to KDE 3.4 which
> didn't go well. Lots of things aren't working, mostly kicker applets.
> Just now I was poking around and got some error messages which were
> helpful. I'm including an example, but basically it looks like my
> 3.4 KDE programs are for some reason looking for shared libraries in
> my /usr/kde/3.1 directory. How does KDE know where to look for libraries?
> Here is an example of an error message I'm getting:
>
>
>>The specified library taskbar could not be found
>>The diagnostics is:
>>/usr/kde/3.1/lib/kde3/kcm_taskbar.so: cannot open shared object file: NO such
>>file or directory
>>
>>Possible reason:
>> . An error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned control
>>module
>> . You have old third party modules lyring around

In those days you had kde 3.1 you compiled some software that is needing KDE
and now it tries to find the old library file from 3.1, which you seem to
lack. To fix this problem, you need to recompile all extra packages for KDE so
that they use kde 3.4 libraries. You can't manually change the paths as the
paths are compiled into the binaries.

//Aho

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 10:34 AM

In article <slrndk19fb.dke.linuxwes_nospam@news.easynews.com> ,
Wes Gray <linuxwes_nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:
>3.4 KDE programs are for some reason looking for shared libraries in
>my /usr/kde/3.1 directory. How does KDE know where to look for libraries?

I remember having this problem a while ago... To fix this, I edited
/etc/kderc which contained paths to the old KDE.
My latest Gentoo box does not have a /etc/kderc.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Ronald

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