How to use debuginfo?

[Timothy Murphy]

I'm looking at kdebluetooth4, which does not work for me.
(Clicking on f=>Applications=>System=>Kdebluetooth4
used to bring up a bluetooth icon in my panel,
but now it appears to do nothing.

I've compiled and installed kdebluetooth4-debuginfo ,
but I have no idea how one is meant to use debuginfo
with KDE packages in general.

Incidentally, was there any repository where I could have found
kdebluetooth-debuginfo RPM?
(I obtained it from the kdebluetooth source RPM,
after running rpmbuild .)

[Rex Dieter]

On 05/23/2009 10:28 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm looking at kdebluetooth4, which does not work for me.
> (Clicking on f=>Applications=>System=>Kdebluetooth4
> used to bring up a bluetooth icon in my panel,
> but now it appears to do nothing.
>
> I've compiled and installed kdebluetooth4-debuginfo ,
> but I have no idea how one is meant to use debuginfo
> with KDE packages in general.
>
> Incidentally, was there any repository where I could have found
> kdebluetooth-debuginfo RPM?
> (I obtained it from the kdebluetooth source RPM,
> after running rpmbuild .)

Better procedure is
debuginfo-install kdebluetooth

(debuginfo-install is in yum-utils, if you don't have that installed).

-- Rex

[Timothy Murphy]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Incidentally, was there any repository where I could have found
> > kdebluetooth-debuginfo RPM?
> > (I obtained it from the kdebluetooth source RPM,
> > after running rpmbuild .)
>
> Better procedure is
> debuginfo-install kdebluetooth
>
> (debuginfo-install is in yum-utils, if you don't have that installed).

Thanks.
I uninstalled the kdebluetooth-debuginfo I had compiled,
and ran your command, which installed almost 500MB of debuginfo files.

[John5342]

2009/5/23 Timothy Murphy :
> I'm looking at kdebluetooth4, which does not work for me.
> (Clicking on f=>Applications=>System=>Kdebluetooth4
> used to bring up a bluetooth icon in my panel,
> but now it appears to do nothing.
>
> I've compiled and installed kdebluetooth4-debuginfo ,
> but I have no idea how one is meant to use debuginfo
> with KDE packages in general.

Debugging normal applications in kde is done just like any other
application and plenty of tutorials are exist for that.

On a side note. debuginfo packages should match the real packages
precisely. Even the same package version built in a different
environment could potentially create debuginfo which is not compatible
with the library built elsewhere. For that reason if you build a src
rpm to generate a debuginfo package then you should only install it
together with the other packages created from the same build.
> Incidentally, was there any repository where I could have found
> kdebluetooth-debuginfo RPM?
> (I obtained it from the kdebluetooth source RPM,
> after running rpmbuild .)

For packages in fedora and fedora-updates the debuginfo packages can
be installed using "debuginfo-install package-name".

Kde-redhat doesnt provide debuginfo packages in the repo but the
packages that make up kde-redhat are built on the fedora build system
so the debuginfo packages can be found in koji
(http://koji.fedoraproject.org). The kdebluetooth packages are at
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=4781 so just
download the debuginfo to go with the version you have