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MiniJack

Member

Registered: 2015-11-17

Posts: 6

[FIXED] Plasma: Application menu: Cannot load library libkickerplugin

Just tried to install and run plasma and I get the following error:

Error loading QML file: file:///home/minijack/.local/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.excalibur/contents/ui/main.qml:27:1: plugin cannot be loaded for module "org.kde.plasma.private.kicker": Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt/qml/org/kde/plasma/private/kicker/libkickerplugin.so: (libappstream.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

The file definatly exists:

[15:37][minijack@Mini-Arch:~]$ ls -la /usr/lib/qt/qml/org/kde/plasma/private/kicker/
total 572
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 May 29 15:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root   4096 May 29 15:35 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 571216 May  2 02:03 libkickerplugin.so
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     57 May  1 22:57 qmldir

I can see via

pacman -Qo

that the file is owned by

plasma-desktop

but reinstalling it does not seem to help.

I have tried to delete /home/minijack/.local/share/plasma/ but the issue persists.

I am using lightdm.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Last edited by MiniJack (2018-05-29 06:50:30)

arojas

Developer

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,290

Re: [FIXED] Plasma: Application menu: Cannot load library libkickerplugin

~ > pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libappstream.so.4
/usr/lib/libappstream.so.4 is owned by appstream 0.12.0-1
~ > pactree plasma-desktop | grep appstream
├─appstream-qt
│ ├─appstream

Have you been messing with dependencies?

MiniJack

Member

Registered: 2015-11-17

Posts: 6

Re: [FIXED] Plasma: Application menu: Cannot load library libkickerplugin

Have you been messing with dependencies?

I don't think so. Installing appstream, however, gets rid of the error.

Although I still cannot open the application menu.

Any easy way to reinstall all dependencies?

Edit: going to run pacman -Qnq | pacman -S - and see if that fixes it.

Edit2: Yep, that fixed it. Thank you very much arojas for your help.

Last edited by MiniJack (2018-05-29 06:51:01)