KDE 4.3.4 cannot start

[James Tyrer]

Duncan wrote:
> James Tyrer posted on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:39:58 -0700 as excerpted:
> 
>> I still think that you should install KDESupport.  It installs these
>> packages:
>>
>> akonadi
>> automoc
>> cpptoxml
>> decibel
>> phonon
>> polkit-qt
>> qimageblitz
>> soprano
>> strigi
>> taglib
>> taglib-extras
>> tapioca-qt
>> telepathy-qt
>>
>> I specifically note "polkit-qt" which might be your specific problem.
>>
>> Before you install Qt-4, you need to install:
>>
>> DBus
>> DBus-Glib
>> HAL
>> HAL-Info
>> PolicyKit
>> EggDBus
>> polkit
>> ConsoleKit
>>
>> and the file: "/etc/dbus-1/session-local.conf" might need "servicedir"s
>> added.
> 
> Actually, policykit isn't a hard kde4 dependency, it's quite optional.  I 
> don't have it installed here.  On Gentoo, of the packages I have 
> installed, hal and pykde4 have the policykit USE flag, but I have it off, 
> so they're built without that support.  Other packages that have that USE 
> flag include gnome-system-tools, system-tools-bakcends, gnome-session, 
> gnome-lirc-properties, gnome-power-manager, hplip, and consolekit 
> (another optional dependency, as should be obvious given I'm running 
> kde4, since I mention it in the other, not the installed, packages).
> 
> Yet another kde4 optional is eggdbus, which I don't believe I'd ever 
> heard of until now.

It is a dependency for "polkit".

> dbus is mandatory AFAIK, as it has now replaced kde3's dcop as the kde 
> system message bus -- dbus being the standard where dcop was kde-
> specific.  Hal, I'm honestly not sure.  I have the hal USE flag set, but 
> I don't remember if it was a required kde dependency or if I just liked 
> the idea of X input hotplugging, etc.  Supporting those are dbus-glib and 
> hal-info, both of which I have installed as well.
> 
Yes, some of this is optional, but we need to be clear about what 
'optional' means.  If you don't install the optional stuff, some of the 
KDE-4 features will not work.  So, I recommend that it be installed.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch
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