[Gslug-general] KDE Problem

[Eric Butler]

You can install the "kubuntu-desktop" package, which will pull in all
required KDE packages.

  - Eric

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Dave Johanson <dcjohan at bmi.net> wrote:

>  Mark Foster wrote:
>
> Dave Johanson wrote:
>
> I did an update to the system (Ubuntu 8.10) last night which said it went
> well with no problems. It lied. This morning when I tried to boot into my
> default KDE desktop I got the follow error message and failure to boot into
> the KDE desktop although the gnome desktop works fine.
>
> Xsession: unable to launch x session - - -  "/usr/bin/startkde" not found,
> falling back to default session.
>
> It's true, startkde is not to be found in /usr/bin, but I have no idea as
> to how that got lost, what it contains, or what to write to replace it.  Any
> suggestions greatly appreciated.
>
>  According to http://packages.ubuntu.com/ this file is in package
> kde-workspace-bin
> Hint: I used the "'search the contents of package" form with keyword:
> kdestart
>
> Share with us the output of: dpkg -l | grep kde
> You might also try: sudo aptitude install kde-workspace-bin
>
>
>  I tried that search - or at least I think I did - as shown below and got
> the same response for all 3 radio buttons:
>
>  You have searched for filenames that contain *kdestart* in suite *
> intrepid*, all sections, and all architectures.
>
> Sorry, your search gave no results
>
> So I must be doing something incorrectly.
>
> Search the contents of packages
>
> This search engine allows you to search the contents of Ubuntu
> distributions for any files (or just parts of file names) that are part of
> packages. You can also get a full list of files in a given package.
>  Keyword: kdestart
> Display:
>  packages that contain files named like this
>  packages that contain files whose names end with the keyword
>  packages that contain files whose names contain the keyword
>
> In any event, I've attached the output of dpkg -l | grep kde as
> "output-kde.rtf.  The info didn't make any sense to me, but then, I have no
> idea as to what I'm looking to find.
>
> sudo aptitude install kde-workspace-bin  responded with:
> can't find any package whose name or description matched
> "kde-workspace-bin"
>
> So I fired up synaptic and looked for everything KDE that I thought might
> be useful and installed it. Now it boots into the KDE desktop. I'm certainly
> not confident in what I did because I saw no package that in any way even
> remotely looked like "kde-workspace-bin" but apparently I got enough stuff
> to make it work.
>
> Thanks to all for the suggestions; they got me thinking at least.
>
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