Hmm, it does seem that there's a problem somewhere, but I don't know how to fix it.
I had previously purged everything from kde, so the output below was just after a "sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude install kdebase", which should be as clean as it can be. Otherwise, I'm running up-to-date Feisty from the official repositories (including universe and multiverse). ************************************ $ dpkg -l kdebase Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-======================-======================-============================================================ ii kdebase 3.5.6-0ubuntu3 base components from the official KDE release *********************************** $ dpkg -l kcontrol Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-======================-======================-============================================================ ii kcontrol 3.5.6-0ubuntu3 control center for KDE *********************************** -- kcontrol is empty https://launchpad.net/bugs/80444 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs