kbuildsycoca4(8) - Linux man page

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

--nosignal

Don't signal applications
--incremental
Incremental Update
--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
--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

/tmp/kde-$USER/ksycoca

...

Environment Variables

$KDEDIRS

Specifies which directories are part of the KDE installations

See Also

kdeinit4

Bugs

There are no known bugs at the time of writing.

Author

Darian Lanx <content@openprojects.net>.