<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I'm afraid that you will end up having to install most of the plasma packages. I'm not sure exactly what's minimal from plasma to get the klauncher going if you don't use KDE/plasma as your desktop or have it installed. For starters you could try to install the kded5 and kinit packages and see if that helps. Otherwise installing plasma desktop will solve it but that's many packages that you otherwise don't need.<br><br></div>It's easier for you to read the documentation online as Gilles suggested...<br><br></div>/Philip<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Chuck Pergiel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c.pergiel@gmail.com" target="_blank">c.pergiel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="m_1940279086998424900gmail-postbody" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.48em;vertical-align:baseline;width:786.344px;float:left"><div id="m_1940279086998424900gmail-post_content1271421" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">I have digiKam installed and working on the current version of Linux Mint (serena).</div><div id="m_1940279086998424900gmail-post_content1271421" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Asking <b>Help</b> for the digiKam handbook produces an .</div><div id="m_1940279086998424900gmail-post_content1271421" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background-color:rgb(224,237,211);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"lucida grande","trebuchet ms",verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.3em;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">Error message</span><span style="background-color:rgb(224,237,211);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"lucida grande","trebuchet ms",verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.3em;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">:</span><br></div><div id="m_1940279086998424900gmail-post_content1271421" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><div class="m_1940279086998424900gmail-content" style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"lucida grande","trebuchet ms",verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.3em;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;background-color:rgb(224,237,211);margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.4em;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;min-height:3em;overflow-x:auto;overflow-y:hidden"><blockquote class="m_1940279086998424900gmail-uncited" style="margin:0.5em 1px 0px 25px;padding:25px 5px 5px;border:1px solid rgb(219,219,206);font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:0.95em;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;quotes:none;background-image:url("http://./images/quote.gif");background-position:6px 8px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:rgb(235,234,221);overflow:hidden"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The requested operation could not be completed<br>Cannot Initiate the help Protocol<br>Technical Reason: Unable to Launch Process<br><br>Details of the Request:<br>URL: help:/<span class="m_1940279086998424900gmail-posthilit" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 2px 1px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(243,191,204);color:rgb(188,42,77)">digikam</span>/index.html<br>Protocol: help<br>Date and Time: Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:26:55 AM PST<br>Additional Information: Cannot talk to klauncher: The name org.kde.klauncher5 was not provided by any .service files<br></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div class="m_1940279086998424900gmail-back2top" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10px;line-height:inherit;font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;height:11px;text-align:right;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(224,237,211)"></div><div><div class="m_1940279086998424900gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>I found<a href="https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=233795&p=1241813&hilit=digikam#p1241087" target="_blank"> a post on the Linux Mint Forum</a> that claimed installing Plasma 5.6 solved his problem. I added my problem to that thread, but so far there has been no response.<br>This version of Linux (serena) is supposed to include Plasma 5.6 (<a href="https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_sarah_kde_whatsnew.php" target="_blank">https://www.linuxmint.com/<wbr>rel_sarah_kde_whatsnew.php</a>).<br>I have also installed the khelpcenter package and digikam5-doc, but still no joy.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="ltr"><br>Chuck Pergiel<br>Silicon Forest<br><a href="http://www.pergelator.blogspot.com" target="_blank">www.pergelator.blogspot.com</a><br>Sent from my Commodore-64 via a US Robotics 300 Baud Modem</div></font></span></div></div></div>
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