Running latest master - problems in various OS's

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Thu Oct 1 13:43:57 PDT 2015


On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 10:54:02PM +0300, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> On 1 October 2015 at 22:08, Pedro Neves <nevesdiver at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've successfully build subsurface from master on Kubuntu 15.10 (beta), on
> > Debian SID and on KaOS.
> > However, when I try to execute the subsurface.desktop file, I get the
> > following message:
> >
> >
> > KDEInit could not launch 'subsurface':
> >
> > Could not open library '/usr/lib/libkdeinit5_subsurface'.
> >
> > Cannot load library /usr/lib/libkdeinit5_subsurface:
> > (/usr/lib/libkdeinit5_subsurface.so: cannot open shared object file: No such
> > file or directory)
> >
> > Any hints?
> 
> googling about this error shows a lot of results, so i don't think
> this is Subsurface specific.
> and i don't think we maintain a /usr/lib/libkdeinit5_subsurface.so
> file, of sorts.

No we don't.

> what if you havigate to the executable location and just do a:
> ./subsurface
> 
> http://api.kde.org/frameworks-api/frameworks5-apidocs/kinit/html/index.html
> 
> ^ this page says that KDEInit is used for startup performance reasons,
> so there should be a way to start your apps without it.
> why the desktop icon calls it is a valid question...

... which I have no answer for. Nothing that we do should create such a
dependency.

> as i side note, i'm not familiar with KDEInit, but i find this
> business of maintaining a /usr/lib module/shared library (assuming
> some sort of a stepping stone for the initialiser) for some random
> installed user application (e.g. Subsurface)  - quite obscure, even
> with performance goals.

Agreed. I'd love to know if starting it directly works and what happens if
you install the latest daily from our PPA...

/D


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