On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:15:05 +0800 Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: artikulate > Version: 4:15.12.1-1 > Severity: serious > > I cannot download any courses with artikulate and it isn't useful without them. > > I get this error in the download courses dialog: > > Loading of providers from file: http://edu.kde.org/artikulate/downloads/providers.xml fail > > The URL in that message works, as does the URL mentioned in providers.xml. > > I see these messages in the terminal where I launched artikulate: > > knewstuff: Initializing KNS3::Engine from ' "artikulate.knsrc" ' > No frame loaded > No frame loaded > No frame loaded > knewstuff: Loading KNewStuff3 config:  "artikulate.knsrc" > knewstuff: Categories:  () > knewstuff: Using registry file:  "/home/pabs/.local/share/knewstuff3/artikulate.knsregistry" > knewstuff: Loading KNS2 registry of files for the component:  "artikulate" > knewstuff: Cache read... entries:  0 > knewstuff: loading providers from  "http://edu.kde.org/artikulate/downloads/providers.xml" > knewstuff: XmlLoader::load(): url:  QUrl("http://edu.kde.org/artikulate/downloads/providers.xml") > klauncher not running... launching kdeinit > klauncher not running... launching kdeinit > couldn't create slave: "Cannot talk to klauncher: The name org.kde.klauncher5 was not provided by any .service files"
Do you have kinit and/or kio installed? If not, I'd appreciate it if you'd see if installing one or the other helps. Scott K