3.5.10 Kontact crashing on startup

[Willy K. Hamra]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/9/8 Alexander Smirnov <alexander.v.smirnov at gmail.com>:
>> ok. looks mysterious. I often have problems with kontact app when
>> upgrading it. This is a compound application, and every it's atom should
>> be updated in order to get all this zoo working. I've found that
>> 'kdepim' package is the meta  package  which installs all necessary
>> applications (there are many separate packages like 'kmail',
>> 'akregator', 'kontact' and this confuses).
>>
>> Could you please ensure that 'kdepim' is installed on your system?
>> try
>> sudo apt-get install kdepim
>>
> 
> Very inteersting. kdepim is one of the first apps that I install on a
> new Kubuntu build, in fact, it is the first item in my 'new-build'
> script. However, just to play along I tried to install it anyway and
> sure enough, apt-get installed an additional 16 packages and now the
> problem 'went away'.
> 
> Thank you for the tip. Alexander, and I will double check that the
> packages that I _think_ are install are in fact installed before I
> start troubleshooting.
> 
> Have a great week.
> 

weird, i never tried kdepim or even know what it is, but kontact ran
perfectly in 3.5.9 and 3.5.10 :S

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
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