I wonder if I could do checkinstall on just the krita portion of the build? Or would I need all of calligra installed for dependencies?

Dang! I got as far as the application starting & then a message saying "The Calligra LittleCMS color management plugin is not installed. Krita will quit now."

Okay, then you did not properly install some of the dependencies. You need to install the development packages for version 2 of lcms.

I had liblcms2-dev installed but I didn't have liblcms-utils. Not sure if that fixed it or the fact that I didn't have Okular before I rebuilt but it's working !!! Thanks again for your help!!!!!

I'm getting a new error "The service '/home/doug/.local/share/applications/Krita.desktop' provides no library or the Library key is missing in "
But if I run kbuildsycoca4 it runs fine. How can I keep it from becoming disassociated from it's libs in a more permanent way?

Hm, I'm not sure. On OpenSUSE this works the right way automatically, but I'm not sure about other distributions. Anyone else?

Maybe this and following helps
viewtopic.php?f=139&t=92880&start=15#p187522

I did apt-get purge koffice koffice-data krita which removed some stuff & then apt-get build-dep krita which said I had all of what I needed. I can consistently reenact the problem just by updateing the kmenu (right click on aplications launcher, choose edit applications & click on save) After that the error comes back. So can I edit the krita.desktop so it sees the libs it needs?

Could you please provide the content of "/home/doug/.local/share/applications/Krita.desktop"? It is probable it is missing essential keys (this file can only have been created by the menu editor)

[Desktop Entry]
Comment=
Exec=/home/doug/kde4/inst/bin/krita
Icon=krita
Name=Krita
NoDisplay=false
Path[$e]=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=0
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

This is due to the way Krita is built I think - the environment variables aren't declared in a way that the KDE Workspace sees them. You will need to launch it from the shell I think.

I get this message when I install updated builds & it looks helpful but I'm not sure where to find files to add this to the search path.

Note that '/home/doug/kde4/inst/share' is not in the search path
set by the XDG_DATA_HOME and XDG_DATA_DIRS
environment variables, so applications may not
be able to find it until you set them. The
directories currently searched are:

- /home/doug/.local/share
- /usr/share
- /usr/share
- /usr/local/share

based on what I found in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf I created a ~/.config/user-dirs.conf with this in it
/home/doug/kde4/inst/share
/home/doug/.local/share
/usr/share
/usr/share
/usr/local/share

but I can still get the same error by saving the kmenu as before.
I can get it working again by running a shell script I made with this in it
export KDEDIRS=$HOME/kde4/inst:$KDEDIRS && export PATH=$HOME/kde4/inst/bin:$PATH && export KDEHOME=$HOME/kde4/.kde4 && kbuildsycoca4
I hope this is helpful

I don't know if it can helps, but on Kubuntu I have to do this to get Krita ok on the system :

Edit your profile file for a useful redirection ( I use kate here, gedit can be used on Gnome, or leafpad...etc.... )

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kate ~/.profile 

Paste this two lines at the end , customised to your install folder (mine is in ~/sources/krita/ ) :

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export KDEDIRS=$KDEDIRS:$HOME/sources/krita/calligra/calligra-inst
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/sources/krita/calligra/calligra-inst/bin 

reboot