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Apt-Get Breaks KDE in Backtrack 4, How to Fix:Filed Under: Projects

If your like me and ran ‘apt-get upgrade’ while running Backtrack 4, you may have noticed that it breaks KDE.  When you restart, you are taken to the X screen, where your only options are basically to open an X terminal.  After doing some research, I have found a simple fix.  You can run the following commands:

cd /etc/alternatives/
mv x-session-manager x-session-manager-broke
ln -s /opt/kde3/bin/startkde x-session-manager
cd /opt/kde3/share/
mv applications borked-applications
mv pixmaps borked-pixmaps
mkdir -p /usr/local/share/applications/kde
cp borked-applications/kde/ksnapshot.desktop /usr/local/share/applications/kde
ln -s /usr/local/share/pixmaps pixmaps
ln -s /usr/local/share/applications applications
cd /opt/kde3/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/apps/
ln -s cache.png preferences-web-browser-cache.png
cd /opt/kde3/share/applications/kde
cat ksnapshot.desktop |grep -v ^GenericName > ksnapshot.desktop1
mv ksnapshot.desktop1 ksnapshot.desktop

 Alternatively, you can download a script with the same commands and run it:

 wget www.offensive-security.com/fix-kde.sh
cat fix-kde.sh
bash fix-kde.sh

There is a note saying that this fix is temporary, however, it appears to be perminate for me.

Taken from: http://backtrack4.blogspot.com/2009/03/apt-get-upgrade-breaks-backtrack-4-beta.html

Tags: Apt-Get, Backtrack, Beta, Kde, Upgrade