Mint-Kde Configuration error

[owen1978]

Keep getting the error with the mint-configuration-kde.
What I did when i first installed mint kde and uninstalled programs which I didn't want
i might have uninstalled something that i was not supposed to.

The system is stable apart from the above mentioned error below is what
i got when i ran a mint update

Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
mint-configuration-kde
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up mint-configuration-kde (2.7.3) ...
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/kde4/apps/quassel/networks.ini': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing mint-configuration-kde (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
mint-configuration-kde

[dequire]

Usually if your removal of an application in Mint is going to break something, you'll get a warning when you go to remove it. Do you recall such a message?

[owen1978]

no such message appeared

[dabi03.7]

I have the same issue, do anyone know how to solve this problem?

[dequire]

I believe if you remove packages that are in Mint-Meta-KDE, bad things can happen. It's not like installing KDE from scratch, apparently. Though I have not tried it, what happens if you try:

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sudo apt-get install mint-meta-kde

Short of that, you may just want to re-install...

[smokex]

Or add the Quassel Irc app back. Personally, I want to get rid of it and leave it gone. I wonder if anyone can tell us how to do that without getting this error.

[rec9140]

do a :

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sudo mkdir /usr/share/kde4/apps/quassel/

This will make the directory it wants, and it will re-create the file it wants, and thus remove the error.

You may also need to do a

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sudo touch networks.ini

This will create a empty file in the directory., but I am think dpkg is trying to create it any way, so probably don't need this, but just in case.

[Boo]

Ok I have fixed this bug (me being lazy in a place or two) in the postinst file.
a temp fix is to edit this file:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mint-configuration-kde.postinst
and edit out the copy for quassel file.

Cheers
Jamie