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KBUILDSYCOCA4(8) KDE User's Manual KBUILDSYCOCA4(8)

NAME

kbuildsycoca4 - Rebuilds the system configuration cache.

SYNOPSIS

kbuildsycoca4 [--nosignal | --incremental | --help | --help-qt | --help-kde | --help-all | --author | -v, --version | --license]

DESCRIPTION


kbuildsycoca4, as part of the KDE command line tools ensures the proper operation of KDE by reading in all the .desktop, .directory, .kimgio and .protocol files to constructs a binary database.


KDE itself accesses this database during operation to provide configuration information a program needs to run.

This tool is part of ksycoca, which stands for KDE System Configuration Cache

OPTIONS

Don't signal applications

Incremental Update

Show help about options

Show Qt specific options

Show KDE specific options

Show all options

Show author information

Show version information

Show license information

USAGE

A standard way to run this program is by simply specifying the following command at the prompt kbuildsycoca4

FILES

/tmp/kde-$USER/ksycoca
...

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

$KDEDIRS
Specifies which directories are part of the KDE installations

SEE ALSO

kdeinit4

BUGS

There are probably tons of bugs. Use bugs.kde.org: http://bugs.kde.org to report them.

AUTHOR

Darian Lanx <content@openprojects.net>.

2001-04-25