Today I reinstalled my ubuntu 12.04. And I installed krita 2.6 from the kubuntu backport ppa. But whenever I try to start Krita, the splash screen blinks for a second and then gone - that's all. I couldn't tart krita no matter how much i tried. I really need this to work. Help.


EDIT:

I dont know much about commands. But in Krita's desktop file (/usr/share/applications/kde4/), I saw the terminal command is

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krita %U

When I enter this in terminal, i get this -

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Legacy integer arithmetics implementation
krita(3741)/kdeui (KIconLoader): Error: standard icon theme "oxygen" not found!

krita(3741)/koffice (lib komain): "krita" part.desktop not found.

krita(3741)/koffice (lib komain): Run 'kde4-config --path services' to see which directories were searched, assuming kde startup had the same environment as your current shell.

krita(3741)/koffice (lib komain): Check your installation (did you install Calligra in a different prefix than KDE, without adding the prefix to /etc/kderc ?)

What to do?

Try to run kbuildsycoca4 on the command line, then run krita again.

boudewijn wrote:Try to run kbuildsycoca4 on the command line, then run krita again.

It said "not currently installed... Install by

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sudo apt-get install kdelibs-bin

"

So installed that from synaptic. and ran kbuildsycoca4 and there was hundreds of lines and the ran krita...This time the application started but had no splash screen I mean there ws a white splash screen only. And then got a error window on top of the krita's main window which said... "Could not start process Cannot talk to klauncher: The name org.kde.klauncher was not provided by any .service files."
And there is no icon in the whole Krita windows...No Icon in toolbar or anywhere. if I hover mouse, i can see there are things like buttons butotherwise a clean toolbar having no icon at all.
This is happening each time.


EDIT:

An Important note. Until this only a 22mb of krita installation was being done by software centre and synaptic. So i purged krita, installed it with

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sudo apt-get install krita*

(with an asterix to get all its dependencies). and made a 100+mb installation.
Now ran krita again...It started decently with a splash screen, But still i get that error window and No icon.
Error msg in terminal

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krita %U
Legacy integer arithmetics implementation
krita(13579)/kdeui (KIconLoader): Error: standard icon theme "oxygen" not found!

Could not find 'klauncher' executable.
kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
krita(13579)/koffice (lib pigment) KoColorConversionSystem::insertColorSpace: Cannot add node for  "YCBCR (8-bit integer/channel)" , since there are no profiles available
krita(13579)/koffice (lib pigment) KoColorConversionSystem::insertColorSpace: Cannot add node for  "YCBCR (16-bit integer/channel)" , since there are no profiles available
krita(13579)/koffice (lib pigment) KoColorConversionSystem::insertColorSpace: Cannot add node for  "YCBCR (32-bit float/channel)" , since there are no profiles available
krita(13579)/koffice (lib kopageapp) KoOdfLoadingContext::KoOdfLoadingContext: could not parse manifest document
krita(13579)/koffice (lib kopageapp) KoOdfLoadingContext::KoOdfLoadingContext: could not parse manifest document
krita(13579)/kdeui (KAction) KActionCollection::setComponentData: this does not work on a KActionCollection containing actions!
X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5
  Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty)
  Resource id:  0x0
X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5
  Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty)
  Resource id:  0x0
krita(13579) SpaceNavigatorDevice::start: starting spacenavigator device...
connect failed: No such file or directory
krita(13579) SpaceNavigatorDevice::stop: stopping spacenavigator device...

At the near end of the installation, I got few lines in the terminal "

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Processing triggers for tex-common ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done.
Running mktexlsr /var/lib/texmf ... done.

" I never got such messages, neither in my previous installations. I wonder they have something to do with krita or not...

I installed Oxygen-gtk2 and gtk3 engines and Oxygen themes- icons. Now krita toolbar has icons. But still I get the error window that says

Could not start process Cannot talk to klauncher: The name org.kde.klauncher was not provided by any .service files

erm... that's really weird, and I suspect a packaging problem by kubuntu.

boudewijn wrote:erm... that's really weird, and I suspect a packaging problem by kubuntu.

So what to do? Wait until the next update from Kubuntu-backports?

I tried to run it in guest session to see if everything's alright. But in guest session, krita didnt even start.


Also, if I close the error window everytime, iget a normla krita window. What is missing? and what the error actually means then?

I've asked a kubuntu guy for advice, but basically it looks like the install is broken, a lot of necessary dependencies don't seem to be installed. Waiting for it to get better probably won't help. It's also not a a problem with krita specifically, but a problem with ubuntu, so the best thing would be to go through their support channels.

boudewijn wrote:I've asked a kubuntu guy for advice, but basically it looks like the install is broken, a lot of necessary dependencies don't seem to be installed. Waiting for it to get better probably won't help. It's also not a a problem with krita specifically, but a problem with ubuntu, so the best thing would be to go through their support channels.

I hope soon the guy can answer you.

Yeah i'm tired of reinstalling and removing krita the whole day
You mean ask in ubuntu's support forum?

From what I've read, we don't have the complete KDE environment etc. so with a little searching (Ubuntu forums) I got Krita working by:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kde-standard

success!