No plasma desktop nor panel after upgrade to KDE SC 4.4 beta 2

[Dotan Cohen]

2010/1/2 Willy K. Hamra <w.hamra1987 at gmail.com>:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I get the message that I need some Virtuoso Soprano server for Neopuk,
>> if it is relevant. There does not seem to be a Kubuntu package
>> available, however.
>>
> hmm... didn't happen with me, but nepomuk has been disabled long long
> long ago here as it is a procesor hog at the most unsuitable times.
> is krunner working? can you try alt+f2, and then attempt starting
> plasma-desktop? even better, start konsole, and start plasma from there
> to see any errors.


karmic1 at kubuntu:~$ plasma-desktop
The program 'plasma-desktop' is currently not installed.  You can
install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install kdebase-workspace-bin
plasma-desktop: command not found
karmic1 at kubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install kdebase-workspace-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
kdebase-workspace-bin is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libsm-dev libice-dev x11proto-xext-dev libaudio-dev pkg-config
  libglib2.0-dev xvnc4viewer x11proto-xinerama-dev comerr-dev
  x11proto-render-dev smbfs libxcompshad3 libxi-dev libxmu-headers
  libxrender-dev libsqlite0 libkadm5srv6 libkrb5-dev libfile-basedir-perl
  libglu1-xorg-dev libpng12-dev libsqlite0-dev libgssrpc4 freenx-server
  libfontconfig1-dev nx-common libxcursor-dev libxcompext3
  libfile-mimeinfo-perl nxagent libkrosspython0 libxcomp3 x11proto-randr-dev
  expect libssl-dev libxt-dev libxmu-dev libxext-dev libjpeg62-dev freenx-rdp
  freenx-smb libfile-desktopentry-perl zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev
  x11proto-fixes-dev xlibmesa-gl-dev liblcms1-dev compizconfig-backend-kconfig
  libpq-dev libxrandr-dev libexpat1-dev freenx-session-launcher nxlibs
  libxft-dev libkdb5-4 libxfixes-dev libmng-dev libxinerama-dev
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
karmic1 at kubuntu:~$


Strange, no?

> if no, switch to TTY1, login, and start plasma-desktop to be run on the
> X screen. been a long while since i did that, so forgot how, but you can
> instuct a command open its window in a certain screen.
>

I'll google that, thanks.


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