downloaded apps not working

**Sp1ck** · February 2nd, 2009

none of the apps i have downloaded are working after the latest update to 8.10

is there anyone else with this problem and knows how to fix it

**Dayylin** · February 2nd, 2009

Hiya,

When you say downloaded apps not working, do you mean that they can't be installed or that they don't work after being installed?

Dayylin

**Sp1ck** · February 2nd, 2009

they were working now they won't even open

the cursor doesn't go into it's "doing something" thing and my laptop then becomes very sluggish with every thing

**taurus** · February 2nd, 2009

Have you tried running it from a terminal to see if there is any error message?

**sydbat** · February 2nd, 2009

What apps are you having problems with? Are they ones you installed outside of the repositories (ex. downloaded and installed from the desktop)? If so, they may have to be reinstalled, as a kernel update will likely break them. If they are from the repos, I am not sure what would be going wrong.

**Sp1ck** · February 2nd, 2009

all the apps not working i installed with the repos
kopete, vlc player, and a few games

i haven't tried running them in terminal yet

still new so i don't really know how

**taurus** · February 2nd, 2009

Open a terminal and just type in the app that you want to test out.

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

Code:

vlc

**Sp1ck** · February 2nd, 2009

i get

Code:

bash: Kopete: command not found

but kopete is in my applications > internet > Kepete

**taurus** · February 2nd, 2009

Try it again with a lower case letter k.

**Sp1ck** · February 3rd, 2009

here's what the terminal put out when i tried kopete

Code:

 Communication problem with  "kopete" , it probably crashed. 
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." "