Kopete in kde 3.2 problem

ralle · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 4:13 pm Post subject: Kopete in kde 3.2 problem

When I try to setup the Kopete Instant Messenger I get this strange problem:
I get to the point where you can select the different protocols, then I may pick any item and kopete will always complain: "Das Protokoll `ICQ' kann nicht geladen werden." which means something like "The protocol ICQ could not be loaded" in English.

Anybody experienced the same? Any solutions?

dr.gonzo · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2002 Posts: 7 Location: Montreal, QC

it could be that you have an older version of it lying around that it could be trying to load a plugin for.. (i used to get those errors).. either unmerge it if you have it installed (it comes with KDE 3.2 anyways) or manually delete any 'kopete' files in /usr/kde/3.2 and then compile it by hand from source (i use CVS HEAD every day with no problems but your mileage may vary)
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ZothOmmog · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:06 pm Post subject:

According to the KDE buglist, this seems to be a Gentoo specific problem: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67668.

For the record, I did unmerge Kopete prior to emerging KDE 3.2, and I still get this same error with the new version.
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ralle · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 7:25 pm Post subject: Fix

I fixed it myself. Using the information from the link above, I changed the file /etc/env.d/99kde-env from:

MrIch · Apprentice Joined: 25 May 2002 Posts: 204

If I change the KDEDIRs, programs like koffice doest not appear in the k-menu anymore...

Also mldonkey doest not work then...

Any ideas?

ralle · Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 9:48 pm Post subject:

I don't have any problems with disappearing icons or kmldonkey not working (assuming you really meant kmldonkey, not the mldonkey daemon).

Maybe it's because I completely unmerged my old kde before installing 3.2.
You could take a look at /usr/kde/3.2/share/applnk and /usr/kde/3.1/share/applnk to check out where the koffice icons are installed.
Perhaps unmerging the old version is required in some cases...

danthe · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 1

After a little playing with strace, I found the old files, which were not unmerged when I cleaned kopete from my system before upgrading to kde 3.2.

In /usr/lib/kde3, there were some old .la files. After I removed them (rm /usr/lib/kde3/kopete_*) and restarted kopete, everything worked correctly again.
I only had to restart kopete. There's no need to re-emerge anything, not even reset of restart kde...

tlaloctlaloc · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 9:57 am Post subject:

That worked for me. Thanks.

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cvk · Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2004 11:18 am Post subject:

Works fine now, thanks a lot.

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gondoi · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:21 pm Post subject:

I have a problem with ICQ, but I don't think it has anything to do with the module loading.

I am running KDE 3.2.1 (fresh install, not an upgrade) And I'm running Kopete 0.8.1. I have been able to connect to ICQ for a while but here recently the icon just flashes in the bottom like it's trying to connect, but then after a while it just quits. I can connect from a windows machine on the network fine. So I'm not sure what's going on here. Where are the error logs for kopete? or does anyone know an answer?

Thanks
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gondoi · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 7:11 pm Post subject:

I see these problems too. Almost all of them get disconnected an stay that way. It doesn't seem to try and reconnect.

But about my post from above, I figured out what the deal was. When I re-compiled kdenetwork applying the kget patch, I still had KDE and kopete running, apparently it screwed up the module or something, not sure.
At any rate, I logged out of KDE and kdm and recompiled kdenetwork and now everything works great... (well except for the staying connected thing that has come up)
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