Hi I have trawled through the list archives looking for a solution to this problem and have found several suggestions but unfortunately none that fix the problem on my system. The following error appears when I attempt to open a Kontrol Center module This example comes form trying to open the Desktop module under "Look and Feel" in the Control center) "There was an error loading the module : Details: The diagnostics is: Library Files for "libkcm_konq.la" not found in paths. Possible reasons: * an error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving orphaned control module * you have old third party modules lying around" Going through the different modules in the kontrol center I get reports that the following files are missing: libkcm_.la libkcm_.la libkcm_.la libkcm_.la libkcm_.la