I can confirmed that this bug is still present in the current versions for wheezy (4:4.8.4-1) and jessie (4:4.12.3-2) I am unable to run any of the example .kmdr files provided in the source package or any .kmdr files from kde-look.org
$ kommander kommander/examples/tutorial/calc.kmdr kommander(10045)/kdecore (KLibrary) findLibraryInternal: plugins should not have a 'lib' prefix: "libkommanderwidgets.so" kommander(10045) KommanderFactory::loadPlugins: KommanderFactory::loadPlugins - Can't load Kommander plugin library "libkommanderwidgets" An strace shows that kommander is trying to load libkommanderwidgets.so : access("/home/jim/.kde/lib/kde4/libkommanderwidgets.so", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/usr/lib/kde4/libkommanderwidgets.so", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/home/jim/.kde/lib/libkommanderwidgets.so", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/usr/lib/libkommanderwidgets.so", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such fileor directory) The debian package contains .so.4.2.0 and .so.4 but not .so The attached patch resolves the problem by including libkommanderwidgets.so back in to the package. -- Jim Scadden
--- a/debian/kommander.install +++ b/debian/kommander.install @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ usr/bin/kommander usr/lib/libkommandercore.so.4 usr/lib/libkommandercore.so.4.2.0 +usr/lib/libkommanderwidgets.so usr/lib/libkommanderwidgets.so.4 usr/lib/libkommanderwidgets.so.4.2.0 usr/share/applnk/.hidden/kommander.desktop --- a/debian/not-installed +++ b/debian/not-installed @@ -5,6 +5,5 @@ ./usr/include/specials.h ./usr/lib/libklinkstatuscommon.so ./usr/lib/libkommandercore.so -./usr/lib/libkommanderwidgets.so ./usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.kde.kdewebdev.klinkstatus.SearchManager.xml ./usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.kde.kfilereplace.xml