Hi Bramm,
Thanks for your replies - they are appreciated.
Yes, $KDEDIR is set properly. I've also defined KDEDIRS=$KDEDIR, rerun kbuildsycoca but the problems are still there.
$echo $KDEDIR
/usr/local/kde
$echo $KDEDIRS
/usr/local/kde
$ll /usr/local/kde
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 4 15:24 /usr/local/kde -> kde-3.5.1/
The following is a portion of the output ftom kbuildsycoca
kbuildsycoca running...
kio (KSycoca): Trying to open ksycoca from /var/tmp/kdecache-kmg/ksycoca
Reusing existing ksycoca
kbuildsycoca: Recreating ksycoca file (/var/tmp/kdecache-kmg/ksycoca, version 93)
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : kchart_mng_export.desktop
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kbuildsycoca: processKDELegacyDirs()
kio (KSycoca): ERROR: No database available! <------------------------------ ???????
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As for kmenuedit, the following message is written to ~/.xsession-errors when I select kmenuedit from the RMB menu:
kio (KLauncher): KLauncher: Got start_service_by_desktop_name('kmenuedit', ...)
BTW - the RMB menu I am referring to is the one from the kicker KMenu button