Error loading KDE apps: QtSvg4.dll was not found

[Patrick Spendrin]

Aryan Ameri schrieb:
> Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker at freenet.de> wrote:
>> Aryan Ameri schrieb:
>>> Ralf Habacker wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Aryan Ameri schrieb:
>>>>    
>>>>> Ralf Habacker wrote:
>>>>>      
>>>>>> Aryan Ameri schrieb:
>>>>>>    
>>>>>>        
>>>>>>> Hey everyone,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Old-time KDE user here, first time trying to run it on Windows, on Vista 
>>>>>>>          
>>>> SP1. 
>>>>    
>>>>>>> I have followed the steps described at 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>      
>>>>>>>          
>> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Installation#KDE_Installer_for_Windows 
>>
>>>>    
>>>>>>    
>>>>>>        
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> have added KDEDIRS as a user variable and the lib and bin directories
>>>>>>> to the PATH. I also have MS VS.Net 2005 installed on the computer. Yet,
>>>>>>> when trying to run any KDE application from the bin directory, I
>>>>>>> receive various error messages about lack of DLLs, mostly saying that
>>>>>>> QtSvg4.dll was not found. Obviously this seems to me to be a case where
>>>>>>> the lib directory is not in PATH, but I have doubled checked and triple
>>>>>>> checked it and it's right there, at the end of the PATH directories,
>>>>>>> separated by a semicolon. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Am I missing something here?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Help appreciated.
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>      
>>>>>>>          
>>>>>> Can you send a list of the installed packages by generating a file list 
>>>>>> of the manifest subdirectory in the kde installation directory ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    
>>>>>>        
>>>>> Sure.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is the output of ls-la of the manifest directory (Cygwin Bash)
>>>>>  
>>>>>      
>>>> There are no dependencies installed, which is unusual, by default if you 
>>>> select any kde... package there should be additional packages listed for 
>>>> installation - which installer version are you using ?
>>>>
>>>> Additional it would be nice to have the content of the file 
>>>> kdewin-installer.log located in the download directory
>>>>    
>>> Thanks for the help. It is strange that none of the dependencies have been 
>> installed. 
>>> kdewin installer version 0.9.3. 
>> There is nothing unusual in the log file - can you delete all 
>> subdirectories in the installation dir and retry installing with 
>> installer 0.9.3-1 version ? The downloaded files can be reused for 
>> installing.
>>
> 
> 
> I appreciate the help Ralf.
> 
> Downloaded kdewin installer 0.9.3-1. Cleared the installation subdirectory (C:\KDE4 in my case) and ran the installer again. After finishing the installation, trying to run any KDE application still brings up the same error message foo.dll was not found. A look at the manifest directory shows that no new dependency has been installed. 
> 
> Frankly, I have no idea why kdewin installer is not installing the dependecies. Is there any other log file that might shed some light on this?
please clear again the file config.txt from your download directory;
use winkde.org as a mirror;
use the 4.1.1 stable release and try again.
I changed some stuff there so maybe that solved the problem.
> 
> Cheers
Patrick

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