Games won't execute [solved]

[Pliny.D.Elder]

None of the installed games will execute.
"Could not find program xxxx" is what is displayed when clicking on a game in the pop up menu.
I have made a directory in Dolphin to /usr/games/....which will allow me to click on the game, and it opens.
They can be opened with konsole.

[starbuck]

Which games for example, and how did you install them?

[Pliny.D.Elder]

Kmahjongg installed with synaptic.
1. kmahjongg
2. kdegames-mahjongg-data-kf5
3. libkf5mahjongglib5
The chess and other games came with OS install.
they all return "could not find program xxx"
kmines, xboard, are some of the others.

[starbuck]

That sounds indeed very odd.
Kmahjongg comes pre-installed btw. so i wonder why it doesnt come up.
What launcher are you using? Can you do right click on one of the games and post how its configured via "Edit"?

[leszek]

Does dpkg --get-selections | grep mahjongg list all those mahjongg packages as installed ?
Can you manually run kbuildsycoca5 in terminal to force update the entries in the menu.
Does it work then ?

[AJSlye]

Hmm, they are working here on my system.
Could you please also copy and past the exact error messages your getting when launching one of these games?

[Pliny.D.Elder]

$dpkg --get-selections | grep mahjongg
kdegames-mahjongg-data-kf5            install

kmahjongg                                       install
libkf5kmahjongglib5                          install
libkmahjongglib4                               deinstall

$kbuildsycoca5
kbuildsycoca5 running...

Reusing existing ksycoca
Recreating ksycoca file ("/home/dasher/.cache/ksycoca5_en-AU_8kn8cNnQriB1v8orB8GAMyCIyJE=", version 303)
Still in the time dict (i.e. deleted files) ("apps")
Menu "applications-kmenuedit.menu" not found.
Saving

games>kmahjongg> could not find the program 'kmahjongg'..... is the message.

I don't know how, but I found a Menu folder in the trash. Will have to blame my young fella for that.....mmm
I restored to .config but this what I get in the terminal now and the games still wont execute........
Recreating ksycoca file ("/home/dasher/.cache/ksycoca5_en-AU_8kn8cNnQriB1v8orB8GAMyCIyJE=", version 303)
Still in the time dict (i.e. deleted files) ("apps")
kf5.kservice.sycoca: The menu spec file contains a Layout or DefaultLayout tag without the mandatory Merge tag inside. Please fix your file.
kf5.kservice.sycoca: The menu spec file contains a Layout or DefaultLayout tag without the mandatory Merge tag inside. Please fix your file.
kf5.kservice.sycoca: The menu spec file contains a Layout or DefaultLayout tag without the mandatory Merge tag inside. Please fix your file.
Saving

Does dpkg --get-selections | grep mahjongg list all those mahjongg packages as installed ?
Can you manually run kbuildsycoca5 in terminal to force update the entries in the menu.
Does it work then ?

[leszek]

Can you try reinstalling the kmahjongg package and see if it works.

[Pliny.D.Elder]

Already tried.
All of them.
They will all start using the terminal.

[AJSlye]

It looks like you may have a corupted kmenu configuration file.
Try this and see what happens:

Code:

rm .config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu