Questions and Answers

Chapter 5. Questions and Answers

5.1 I don't run KDE 2, can I still use KBear ?
5.2 KBear complain about that it can't find the file: sitemanager when it's started for the first time.
5.3 When I try to connect to a remote ftp server I get messages like: unsupported action listDir()
5.4 KBear crash at startup.
5.5 When running KBear there are missing icons etc.

5.1 I don't run KDE 2, can I still use KBear ?

You don't run KDE 2.x ?????? shame on you ;-) .....yes you can run KBear without running KDE, but you got to have the kdelibs installed though. (see Requirements Section )

5.2 KBear complain about that it can't find the file: sitemanager when it's started for the first time.

You probably haven't set your paths correctly.

Make sure you have set these environment variables in the file: .profile (or .login, depending on your shell, for bash the file is .bash_profile) in your home directory. (Create the file if it is not there already.)

KDEDIR=full_path_to_where_kde2_is_installed
QTDIR=full_path_to_where_your_qt-2.2.2_is_installed
PATH=$KDEDIR/bin:$QTDIR/bin:$PATH
MANPATH=$KDEDIR/man:$QTDIR/man:$MANPATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$KDEDIR/lib:$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=$KDEDIR/include:$QTDIR/include:$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH
export KDEDIR QTDIR PATH MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH LIBRARY_PATH
export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH

After this logout and in again( or make sure your .login script runs again). Then recompile and reinstall KBear, don't forget to run

% make distclean
and make sure the file config.cache is removed before recompiling

5.3 When I try to connect to a remote ftp server I get messages like: unsupported action listDir()

You have set KDE to work with a FTP-proxy, but KBear can't handle proxies. I'm sorry :-( If you don't absolutely need to connect to a proxie, just uncheck this in KDE and KBear should work just fine.

5.4 KBear crash at startup.

If you have used an earlier version of KBear ( beta3 or earlier) you have to manually remove the file $HOME/.kde/share/apps/kbear/sitemanager. This is because changes made to SiteManager that make the old one incompatible with the new. If this doesn't help, you probably haven't set your paths correctly. See: KBear complain about...

5.5 When running KBear there are missing icons etc.

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