On Monday, 11 October 2004 19.42, Gil Weber wrote:
Hi, everyone. I have a mystery and would appreciate your wise counsel.
I have been using kuickshow to display .tiff files. No problems until today.
Now when I click on a .tif file I get a message that says:
KDEInit could not launch 'kuickshow' Could not find 'kuickshow' executable
So I popped in the 9.1 pro DVD and went into Yast2 (Install and remove software) and did a search for kuickshow. It said:
No results.
So then I opened a shell/console and typed: locate kuickshow.
I got a list that included these two lines:
/opt/kde3/bin/kuickshow /opt/kde3/share/apps/kuickshow
In the first, a group of executables, there was no kuickshow despite it displaying as part of "locate." And in the second group of folders, there again was no kuickshow despite it being displayed by "locate."
So now I'm totally confused. The executable is not on my computer despite "locate" telling me it is.
the locate database is updated once a day, so if you changed your system, it won't show up in "locate" until the next day, unless you manually run /etc/cron.daily/updatedb as root
And when I try to add it using the install and delete software function in Yast it doesn't even come up as available on the DVD.
Your problem is that your latest red carpet update got you the latest kdegraphics3 packages, and they've been slightly rearranged On the CD it was part of kdegraphics3. In the new KDE 3.3 packages it's been moved to a new package called kdegraphics3-imaging. In red carpet, go to the "available" tab, scroll down to kdegraphics3-imaging and mark it for installation and click "Run Now".