Hello,

I have recently installed slackware 12.2 and I am trying to install kde 4.2 on it. I have downloaded all kde packages from the current directory but when I start kde I am getting the following error:

"kstartupconfig does not exists or fails. The error code is 127. Check you installation".

and in the console I am getting:

"bash-3.1$ startkde
/usr/bin/kde4-config: error while loading shared libraries: libQtCore.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
kstartupconfig4: error while loading shared libraries: libQtDBus.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

It seems that I am missing some important packages in order to have a working kde 4.2. Where can I find the complete list of dependencies to download?

I ran into the same problem when I was testing out KDE 4.2 - if you have Slackware 12.2, it should have installed slackpkg in the main install process.

Use slackpkgs's "search" function:

you should install lots of packages in -Current tree in order to get KDE 4 running, mostly in kde/ and l/ because all the KDE packages and libraries required are scattered on those two directories. I'm guessing that you missed the dependency packages for KDE 4 which are now located in l/ directory.

If you wanted to use KDE 4 in Slackware, then the best option is switching to -Current, but take your own risk even though i have no problem at all using -Current everyday

Strong advice:

Do not install packages from slackware-current on your Slackware 12.2 box. Things will break.

Upgrade all the way to slackware-current or else build your own KDE 4.2 packages from source.

Eric

Thank you for your prompt responces. Since I am new to slackware I think I should move to current instead of building my own packages.
Or better, stick with the Xfce until I learn enough of Slackware (or get used to Xfce and do not want KDE anymore ).

Hi there! I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago, you need to install kdelibs and it should work. See this for reference.

But yes, I moved to current first.

Thank you all for your answers. I am thinking of upgrading to current but as I read somewhere, thinking of it means i am not ready yet

Anyway, thanx again.

An additional note, to make it easy to upgrade to slackware-current, I highly suggest editing your mirror in "/etc/slackpkg/mirrors" and changing the instance of "12.2" to "current", then run:

I had the same problem when I decided to upgrade from slackware 12.2 to current. The closest I came to a solution was found page here

bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=490822

The fact is the startkde script or some other script calls /usr/bin/kstartupconfig4 which failed. In my case the system was missing the library libkdefakes.so which is part of the kdelibs package. I guess the default error msg when kstartupconfig fails is to report " unable to start kstartupconfig4, error 127" otherwise nothing happens.

The Solution:

Here are the commands the I executed as the root user to fix it:


$ locate kstartupconfig4
/usr/bin/kstartupconfig4 (output)
$/usr/bin/kstartupconfig4
error while loading shared library: libkdefakes.so... (output)
$ slackpkg search kibkdefakes
[uninstalled] - kdelibs-4.2.2-i486-1 (output)


Once I re-installed kdelibs (slackpkg install kdelibs) the problem goes away.

This being my 1st post, I want to thank the folks at linuxquestions.org and all the posters, I have learned so much for you over the years.

Cool Runnings!

I had the same problem while trying to install KDE4 on Slackware 12.2. I forgot to update qt, so removing the qt package (pkgtool) and installing it anew from /current did the trick.

Alien Bob's quite right, I suppose.