Hi, I'm running KDE5 on Gentoo Linux. I installed konqueror and it won't appear in the start menu and I don't know how to start it.

Gooberpatrol66 wrote:Hi, I'm running KDE5 on Gentoo Linux. I installed konqueror and it won't appear in the start menu and I don't know how to start it.

Type konqueror into a shell window or into the Alt+F2 dialog.
You can create menu entries by right-clicking on the "start menu" icon and choosing "Edit Applications..."

Although normally KDE applications should add an entry to the menu if you install them (if not, that's a packaging error of your distribution).
Maybe just the cache is outdated?
Try running "kbuildsycoca5" (as user).

Sorry, not konqueror. I meant konsole. I get those two mixed up.

So, portage tells me konsole is installed, but it says "command not found" when I type konsole into the shell.
I ran ksybuildcoca5.
I added a new menu entry called "konsole" and made the command "konsole" and when i run it it says this:

KDEInit could not launch 'konsole':
Could not open library '/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_konsole'.
Cannot load library /usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_konsole: (/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_konsole.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

Gooberpatrol66 wrote:Sorry, not konqueror. I meant konsole. I get those two mixed up.

Ok, doesn't matter really in the end though.

So, portage tells me konsole is installed, but it says "command not found" when I type konsole into the shell.

Well, then it is *not* installed (as Gentoo compiles things on your system during installing, it might have failed to build maybe?), it is installed to some strange location where it isn't found (a packaging mistake e.g.), or it consists of several packages and you did not install an important one.

As I don't use Gentoo, I cannot help you further with that package problem though.
Maybe you'd better ask in a forum of your distribution.