Kget plasma applets not working

[ScottZ]

I see that there are three kget plasma applets: kget barchart applet, kget panelbar applet, and kget piechart applet.
I cannot get any of them to work.
I get: "Unable to load the widget" "Could not find the requested component: " for whichever applet I try.

[ScottZ]

Re: Kget plasma applets not working

This is also the case after upgrading to 4.2.3

[ScottZ]

Re: Kget plasma applets not working

After looking into this some more, the problem seems to be that the kget package does not have the *.so files for the applets and the data engine.

[ScottZ]

Re: Kget plasma applets not working

Problem remains in 4.2.4

[Rog131]

Re: Kget plasma applets not working

> Bug #358792 - kget plasma applets not working

Bug #358792 reported by Claudio on 2009-04-09

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I compared Debian's and Ubuntu's .diff for the kdenetwork package and it seems that the following four lines are missing under the "kdenetwork-4.2.2/debian/kget.install" section in Ubuntu's .diff:
+usr/lib/kde4/plasma_engine_kget.so
+usr/lib/kde4/plasma_kget_barapplet.so
+usr/lib/kde4/plasma_kget_panelbar.so
+usr/lib/kde4/plasma_kget_piechart.so

I assume this section only changes which files included in the final package - or does it also change the behavior which files are compiled at all?

Quick&Dirty DIY "Fix"

Downloading:
kdenetwork_4.2.4-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa1.1.dsc
kdenetwork_4.2.4-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa1.1.diff.gz
kdenetwork_4.2.4.orig.tar.gz

Unpacking:

dpkg-source -x kdenetwork_4.2.4-0ubuntu1~jaunty1~ppa1.1.dsc

Build depends:
build-essential, cmake and (from the /kdenetwork-4.2.4/debian/control)

Build-Depends: cdbs (>= 0.4.52ubuntu7), debhelper (>= 6), cmake (>= 2.6.2), quilt,
kdepimlibs5-dev (>= 4:4.2.4), libphonon-dev (>= 4:4.3.1), libplasma-dev (>= 4:4.2.4),
zlib1g-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libxml2-dev, libxslt1-dev, libssl-dev,
libxdamage-dev, libxss-dev, libslp-dev, libiw-dev, libidn11-dev,
libvncserver-dev (>= 0.9.3), libqca2-dev (>= 2.0.0), libspeex-dev,
libsqlite3-dev, libqimageblitz-dev (>= 1:0.0.4), libmeanwhile-dev,
libgmp3-dev, libotr2-dev, libboost1.35-dev, libdecibel-dev, libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev, libmsn-dev

cd to /kdenetwork-4.2.4/

Konsole:

mkdir -p builddir

cd builddir && cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

cd kget && make

Now the /kdenetwork-4.2.4/builddir/lib/ has

plasma_engine_kget.so
plasma_kget_barapplet.so
plasma_kget_panelbar.so
plasma_kget_piechart.so

at the /kdenetwork-4.2.4/builddir/lib/:

sudo cp plasma_engine_kget.so plasma_kget_barapplet.so plasma_kget_panelbar.so plasma_kget_piechart.so /usr/lib/kde4/

Check:

sudo updatedb
locate plasma_engine_kget.so

/usr/lib/kde4/plasma_engine_kget.so

and the Kget plasma applets are working.