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kbuildsycoca4

Rebuilds the system configuration cache.

Synopsis

kbuildsycoca4 [[--nosignal] | [--noincremental] | [--checkstamps] | [--nocheckfiles] | [--global] | [--menutest] | [--track menu-id] | [--help] | [--help-qt] | [--help-kde] | [--help-all] | [--author] | [-v, --version] | [--license]]


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description

kbuildsycoca4, as part of the KDE command line tools ensures the proper operation of KDE by reading in all the .desktop, .xml, and .protocol files to construct a binary database.

KDE itself accesses this database during operation to provide configuration information a program needs to run.

This tool is part of ksycoca4, which stands for KDE System Configuration Cache

options

--nosignal

Do not signal applications to update

--noincremental

Disable incremental update, re-read everything

--checkstamps

Check file timestamps

--nocheckfiles

Disable checking files (dangerous)

--global

Create global database

--menutest

Perform menu generation test run only

--track menu-id

Track menu id for debug purposes

--help

Show help about options

--help-qt

Show Qt specific options

--help-kde

Show KDE specific options

--help-all

Show all options

--author

Show author information

-v , --version

Show version information

--license

Show license information

environment variables

$KDEDIRS

Specifies which directories are part of the KDE installations

$KDESYCOCA

Specifies the path to the sycoca database file

files

/var/tmp/kde-$USER/ksycoca4

The default directory where the cache files are stored.

notes

1.

bugs.kde.org

http://bugs.kde.org

usage

A standard way to run this program is by simply specifying the following command at the prompt kbuildsycoca4


bugs

There are probably tons of bugs. Use bugs.kde.org [1] to report them.


see also

kdeinit4


author

Darian Lanx <content[:at:]openprojects[:dot:]net>

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