Error loading KDE apps: QtSvg4.dll was not found

[Ralf Habacker]

Aryan Ameri schrieb:
> Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker at freenet.de> wrote:
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>> Aryan Ameri schrieb:
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>>> Ralf Habacker wrote:
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>>>> Aryan Ameri schrieb:
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>>>>> Ralf Habacker wrote:
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>>>>>> Aryan Ameri schrieb:
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>>>>>>> Hey everyone,
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>>>>>>> Old-time KDE user here, first time trying to run it on Windows, on Vista 
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>>>> SP1. 
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>>>>>>> I have followed the steps described at 
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>> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows/Installation#KDE_Installer_for_Windows 
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>>>>>>> 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. 
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>>>>>>> Am I missing something here?
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>>>>>>> Help appreciated.
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>>>>>> Can you send a list of the installed packages by generating a file list 
>>>>>> of the manifest subdirectory in the kde installation directory ?
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>>>>> Sure.
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>>>>> Here is the output of ls-la of the manifest directory (Cygwin Bash)
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>>>> 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 ?
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>>>> Additional it would be nice to have the content of the file 
>>>> kdewin-installer.log located in the download directory
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>>> Thanks for the help. It is strange that none of the dependencies have been 
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>> installed. 
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>>> kdewin installer version 0.9.3. 
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>> 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.
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> I appreciate the help Ralf.
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> 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. 
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> 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?
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I compared the log file you send in with a newly created log file  - 
there should be at least the following line (the time stamp may be 
different)

[2008-09-13 09:08:06] Debug: shared\downloader.cpp 188 Downloading 
"http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/mirrors.list"  to memory
...
2008-09-13 09:08:06] Debug: (MirrorType 
(url:QUrl("ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/kde/") name: "ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at" 
continent: "Central Europe" country: "Austria" ) ,  MirrorType ( url:  
QUrl( ....

...
[2008-09-13 09:08:06] Debug: gui\mirrorsettingspage.cpp 90 "Central 
Europe,Austria (ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at)"
...
depending on the selected mirror

[2008-09-13 09:08:18] Debug: gui\mirrorsettingspage.cpp 129  QUrl( 
"http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/" ) 
[2008-09-13 09:08:18] Debug: shared\downloader.cpp 188 Downloading 
"http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde//stable/"  to 
memory
[2008-09-13 09:08:18] Debug: shared\downloader.cpp 222 
Downloader(0x17fdff0) Downloader::fetchInternal url:  
"http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde//stable/"
[2008-09-13 09:08:23] Debug: shared\downloader.cpp 289 
Downloader(0x17fdff0) Downloader::threadFinished
....
[2008-09-13 09:08:23] Debug: shared\downloader.cpp 188 Downloading 
"http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde//unstable/"  to 
memory
[2008-09-13 09:08:23] Debug: shared\downloader.cpp 222 
Downloader(0x17fdff0) Downloader::fetchInternal url:  
"http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.kde.org/pub/kde//unstable/"
[08-09-13 09:08:26] Debug: shared\downloader.cpp 289 
Downloader(0x17fdff0) Downloader::threadFinished
[2008-09-13 09:08:26] Debug: shared\downloader.cpp 283 
Downloader::fetchInternal ret:  true

and at last a list of package found on the related servers for example

[2008-09-13 09:08:38] Debug: shared\packagelist.cpp 306 added 
"akonadi-mingw-1.0.0-bin.tar.bz2" as "akonadi-mingw-bin"
[2008-09-13 09:08:38] Debug: shared\packagelist.cpp 306 added 
"akonadi-mingw-1.0.0-lib.tar.bz2" as "akonadi-mingw-lib"
[2008-09-13 09:08:38] Debug: shared\packagelist.cpp 306 added 
"akonadi-mingw-1.0.0-src.tar.bz2" as "akonadi-mingw-src"
[2008-09-13 09:08:38] Debug: shared\packagelist.cpp 306 added 
"akonadi-msvc-1.0.0-bin.tar.bz2" as "akonadi-msvc-bin"
[2008-09-13 09:08:38] Debug: shared\packagelist.cpp 306 added 
"akonadi-msvc-1.0.0-lib.tar.bz2" as "akonadi-msvc-lib"
[2008-09-13 09:08:38] Debug: shared\packagelist.cpp 306 added 
"akonadi-msvc-1.0.0-src.tar.bz2" as "akonadi-msvc-src"

Ralf