kbuildsycoca4 (8) Linux Manual Page
kbuildsycoca4 – Rebuilds the system configuration cache.
Synopsis
- kbuildsycoca4 [[–nosignal] | [–noincremental] | [–checkstamps] | [–nocheckfiles] | [–global] | [–menutest] | [–track
menu-id] | [–help] | [–help-qt] | [–help-kde] | [–help-all] | [–author] | [-v, –version] | [–license]]
Description
kbuildsycoca4, as part of the
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
Options
–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
Usage
A standard way to run this program is by simply specifying the following command at the prompt kbuildsycoca4
Files
/var/tmp/kde-$USER/ksycoca4
- The default directory where the cache files are stored.
Environment Variables
$KDEDIRS
- Specifies which directories are part of the KDE installations
$KDESYCOCA
- Specifies the path to the sycoca database file
See Also
kdeinit4
Bugs
There are probably tons of bugs. Use m[blue]bugs.kde.orgm[][1] to report them.
Author
Darian Lanx <content [at] openprojects.net>
- Author.
Notes
- 1.
- bugs.kde.org