failure to run Skrooge on "installed" KDE

[anne at stallybrass.plus.com]

Post copied from KDE forum https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic
php?f=210&t=126708 

Hi, I'm moderately proficient IT-skills-wise and OS-installations but am now
newly dipping my toes into Linux-type environment  by attempting to install
Skrooge under Windows. I followed the Skrooge.org "Windows installation":


Get the KDE on Windows installer
In the startup wizard, select "package manager" as profile
Pick up a mirror...
Select "stable latest" for the version. 
Select Skrooge in the list of available packages
Install
Enjoy 


I followed KDE Installer for Windows - https://techbase.kde
org/Projects/KDE_o ... stallation (page last mod. 9 June 2013) - which
appears to advise the canny installer to choose "C:\KDE4" rather than the 
C:\Program Files" default on the screenshot, so I set up "C:\KDE". Likewise
it appears to advise "C:\KDE4-tmp" rather than the "C:\Documents and
Settings\Local Settings\temp" screenshot default, so I set up "C:\KDE-temp".
Everything appeared to install fine. 

Just one problem.  I found Skrooge.exe icon in C:\KDE\bin and copied it to
desktop, but it doesn't work. The program QT Assistant does *appear* to work
- but no other .exe programs in the bin directory do any more than open up a
command line for a couple of seconds. The Skrooge program icon had not
appeared anywhere else where I'd hope to find it, Desktop, Taskbar or Start
Menu; nor is there any indication of Skrooge in Programs - unlike WAMP which
I also installed on the C-drive. Neither could I find KDE4 nor Skrooge in
programs to Uninstall. I tried just moving the folders out of the C-drive
and reinstalling/uninstalling from the KDE installer. But I still get
prompts for the C-drives I'd set up, and not the default prompts it had had
originally.

I checked the Skrooge Windows installation:


In case you can't get skrooge working by following the above procedure, you
should check the following packages have been installed
qca
kdebase-runtime
kdelibs
sqlite

and kdebase-runtime was not visible, either in my download folder
C:\KDE-temp nor in the list of downloads possible when I reran the KDE
install program to search for more downloads. I see it is available online
but don't know if (a) it is still needed nor (b) how to install and
integrate it if needed. More Linux basics no doubt  I think the Windows KDE
installer prompts and tests page needs updating. So this is a request not
just for me but for potentially many others too. 

I liked the look of Skrooge particularly the multiple categorising facility,
though I realized it might be an interesting learning experience   . I've
been using Quicken 2000 but cannot export as .csv only as QIF and even there
I just hope it will work. I am just running a home business and would like
to find something that is reasonably similar to Quicken in style of use. My
hunch is that Skrooge should be a rising star - when Skrooge gets its
installation under Windows straightforward. 

All help gratefully received. 
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