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kbuildsycoca4 - Rebuilds the system configuration cache.

kbuildsycoca4 [[--nosignal] | [--noincremental] | [--checkstamps] | [--nocheckfiles] | [--global] | [--menutest] | [--track menu-id] | [--help] | [--help-qt] | [--help-kde] | [--help-all] | [--author] | [-v, --version] | [--license]]

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

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

This tool is part of ksycoca4, which stands for KDE System Configuration Cache

--nosignal

Do not signal applications to update

--noincremental

Disable incremental update, re-read everything

--checkstamps

Check file timestamps

--nocheckfiles

Disable checking files (dangerous)

--global

Create global database

--menutest

Perform menu generation test run only

--track menu-id

Track menu id for debug purposes

--help

Show help about options

--help-qt

Show Qt specific options

--help-kde

Show KDE specific options

--help-all

Show all options

--author

Show author information

-v , --version

Show version information

--license

Show license information

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

/var/tmp/kde-$USER/ksycoca4

The default directory where the cache files are stored.

$KDEDIRS

Specifies which directories are part of the KDE installations

$KDESYCOCA

Specifies the path to the sycoca database file

kdeinit4

There are probably tons of bugs. Use bugs.kde.org[1] to report them.

Darian Lanx <content@openprojects.net>

Author.

1.
bugs.kde.org
http://bugs.kde.org
2010-01-04 1.1 (KDE 4.4)