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Thursday, November 13th 2003, 10:54am

kdeinit won't start

I get the following error message when I try to start KDE in RedHat 9:

[root@localhost /]# kdeinit
kdeinit: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[root@localhost /]#

But I do have the file libqt-mt.so.3 on my computer.

I tried adding the directory it is in to my PATH but I get the same error message.

Any help solving this problem would be appreciated.

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Bill Dika

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Thursday, November 13th 2003, 9:00pm

In Redhat 8 & 9 libqt-mt.so.3 must be in your /usr/lib/qt-3.X.X/lib directory or found in your QTDIR environmental variable (or maybe your LD_LIBRARY_PATH I am not sure which) you can check it out by doing this:

export QTDIR=~/path/to/your/libqt-mt/dirctory

and then trying to start kdeinit. You may want to put this in your /etc/profile to make it permanent.
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Saturday, November 15th 2003, 2:00am

kdeinit won't start

Thanks for your reply Strider.

I tried your suggestion but I got the same error message.

Also, I tried setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the directory that has the libqt-mt.so.3 file and tried to run kdeinit but I get the same message.

In other words nothing has changed. Is it possible that my kdeinit file is corrupted? Should I be reinstalling KDE?

Any ideas?

Many thanks.

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Bill Dika

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Saturday, November 15th 2003, 7:20pm

Many thanks. I installed the latest stable version of KDE and everything is working again.

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Bill Dika