KDE4 solution

So I’ve been using KDE4 on Ubuntu Linux, and recently came across an irritating error. It refused to start with an error that it could not run “kdeinit4”. Once I burrowed into the error logs, I found KDE4 was reporting a “symbol lookup error” in “libkdeui.so.5”.

So I’ve been using KDE4 on Ubuntu Linux, and recently came across an irritating error. It refused to start with an error that it could not run “kdeinit4”. Once I burrowed into the error logs, I found KDE4 was reporting a “symbol lookup error” in “libkdeui.so.5”.

A quick “dpkg -S /usr/lib/kde4/libkdeui.so.5.0.0” reported that the package “kdelibs5” supplied this package. Assuming some other package erroneously overwrote it, I issued the following command:

“sudo apt-get install –reinstall kdelibs5”.

That sorted the problem out.

I’m archiving this in case there are other users of Ubuntu or Kubuntu that have encountered this problem. It’s a simple fix, but difficult to figure out.