View Full Version : [kde] How to reinstall KDE 4?
kajman
November 15th, 2009, 05:36 PM
I have a problem with missing icons under KDE4. I've searched the forums, and someone told that reinstalling KDE4 helped him. How can I do this myself?
SuperSonic4
November 15th, 2009, 05:38 PM
The easiest way would be to reinstall whichever distro you had with kde on.
You may be able to force the installation of kubuntu-desktop in apt. Have you thought about changing the icon theme first?
kajman
November 15th, 2009, 05:42 PM
Yes, I've tried, but the same icons are still missing.
It is seen especially in Krusader, I attach an screenshot.
Also I think this is not a Krusader problem only, (there's a icon missing in Kate also, and seen some others missing somewhere). I've deleted Krusader config, and it still didn't have any icons.
I don't want to reinstall whole distro, because it is always much work with it, and I don't have much time for it now.
Zorael
November 15th, 2009, 06:29 PM
Hmm, would that be the kde-icons-oxygen package?
$ sudo aptitude reinstall kde-icons-oxygen
kajman
November 15th, 2009, 06:38 PM
Tried to reinstall it already through synaptic. Reinstalled now as you have said. Didn't help also.
Zorael
November 15th, 2009, 07:38 PM
If you create a new user, do icons work properly when logged in as him/her/it?
Looking through the icons (in /usr/share/icons/oxygen), practically all are from kde-icons-oxygen. The only thing I can think of is that you have an overriding user-specific icon theme being used, in which case the icons would show normally for another user.
kajman
November 15th, 2009, 08:10 PM
I've created a new user, and here's the screen for Krusader first-time configuration screen. Icons are still obviously missing.
Zorael
November 16th, 2009, 10:44 AM
Curious.
I don't use Krusader, but I installed it and had a look. It seems like the icons which show in your picture as missing are non-Oxygen icons. They look like the KDE3 Crystal theme.
$ sudo aptitude reinstall kdelibs-data
If the next command doesn't output crystalsvg, that might be a cause, too.
$ file /usr/share/icons/default.kde
/usr/share/icons/default.kde: symbolic link to `crystalsvg'
kajman
November 16th, 2009, 05:45 PM
I did as you said, and reinstalled kdelibs-data and rebooted the system.
Also the output of that command is just as you said it should be:
$ file /usr/share/icons/default.kde
/usr/share/icons/default.kde: symbolic link to `crystalsvg'
Needless to say, it didn't help. Maybe my icons are cursed, not just missing :P
Zorael
November 22nd, 2009, 12:13 PM
You could ask in #kde on irc.freenode.net; hopefully someone there knows more about the intrinsic details of where KDE looks to find icons, and what might cause it to fail.
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