On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 01:26:25 -0500 Felix Miata <mrmazda@...> wrote: > Mike Bird composed on 2014-12-13 21:26 (UTC-0800): > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > >> Debian 6.0 system is "up to date", in that apt-get udate; apt-get upgrade > >> find nothing new. TDE is 3.5.13. Settings menu option for Control Center > >> produces nothing, while from Konsole, the message in $SUBJECT. Individual > >> settings from the main menu is among the worst UIs on the planet. Please, > >> how can I get kcontrol working (without hours of updating)? > > > Does "apt-get --reinstall install kdelibs4c2a-trinity" help at all? > > Helped a lot! KControl works. :-D http://tinyurl.com/nz37aer :-D How did you > figure out that's what needed doing? $SUBJECT produced 0 hits from Google. :-p The error suggested it was having difficulty finding the symbol definitions for a common TDE graphical component. The logical place for such a component to be defined is the libs package, and the easiest way to deal with a broken package is usually to reinstall it and hope the package mangler gets it right this time. ;) E. Liddell