KDE 3.4.1 on Debian/Sid - KMenu problem - Installation & Configuration

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Tuesday, June 7th 2005, 11:07am

KDE 3.4.1 on Debian/Sid - KMenu problem

I'm going to post this all over the various lists...

I updated my Sid install to the experimental KDE 3.4.1 packages from pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org. I switched to init 3 and did apt-get install kdebase, kdeadmin, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdegames.

Now KMenu is empty, I only get the 4 "service" items (Preferences, Quick Browser, etc). All the apps are gone, even though they clearly are still in the system. I tried doing update-menus, either as user and as root, to no avail. I also wiped the ~/.kde directory, still no luck.

Any suggestion on how to fix this?

Giacomo L.

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kishd

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Saturday, June 11th 2005, 12:26pm

Try adding these lines to your .bashrc file

export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$KDEDIR/etc/xdg/
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$KDEDIR/share

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anda_skoa

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Saturday, June 11th 2005, 1:27pm

Maybe there is something left from 3.3.2 which conflicts with the new packages.

The menu entries in /usr/share/applications should have been updated, as well as the menu structure in /etc/xdg

Perhaps the new packages have /etc/xdg in a separate package so GNOME and KDE install the same dependency and the dependency wasn't resolved correctly.

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