'\" t
.\"     Title: \fBkbuildsycoca4\fR
.\"    Author: Darian Lanx <content@openprojects.net>
.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
.\"      Date: 2010-01-04
.\"    Manual: KDE User's Manual
.\"    Source: 1.1 (KDE 4.4)
.\"  Language: English
.\"
.TH "\FBKBUILDSYCOCA4\FR" "8" "2010\-01\-04" "1.1 (KDE 4.4)" "KDE User's Manual"
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * Define some portability stuff
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673
.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html
.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq
.el       .ds Aq '
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * set default formatting
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" disable hyphenation
.nh
.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only)
.ad l
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE *
.\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
.SH "NAME"
kbuildsycoca4 \- Rebuilds the system configuration cache\&.
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\fBkbuildsycoca4\fR\ 'u
\fBkbuildsycoca4\fR [[\-\-nosignal] | [\-\-noincremental] | [\-\-checkstamps] | [\-\-nocheckfiles] | [\-\-global] | [\-\-menutest] | [\-\-track\ \fImenu\-id\fR] | [\-\-help] | [\-\-help\-qt] | [\-\-help\-kde] | [\-\-help\-all] | [\-\-author] | [\-v,\ \-\-version] | [\-\-license]]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
\fBkbuildsycoca4\fR, as part of the
KDE
command line tools ensures the proper operation of
KDE
by reading in all the
\&.desktop,
\&.xml, and
\&.protocol
files to construct a binary database\&.
.PP
KDE
itself accesses this database during operation to provide configuration information a program needs to run\&.
.PP
This tool is part of ksycoca4, which stands for
KDE
System Configuration Cache
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
\fB\-\-nosignal\fR
.RS 4
Do not signal applications to update
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-noincremental\fR
.RS 4
Disable incremental update, re\-read everything
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-checkstamps\fR
.RS 4
Check file timestamps
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-nocheckfiles\fR
.RS 4
Disable checking files (dangerous)
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-global\fR
.RS 4
Create global database
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-menutest\fR
.RS 4
Perform menu generation test run only
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-track \fR\fB\fImenu\-id\fR\fR
.RS 4
Track menu id for debug purposes
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-help\fR
.RS 4
Show help about options
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-help\-qt\fR
.RS 4
Show Qt specific options
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-help\-kde\fR
.RS 4
Show KDE specific options
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-help\-all\fR
.RS 4
Show all options
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-author\fR
.RS 4
Show author information
.RE
.PP
\fB\-v , \-\-version\fR
.RS 4
Show version information
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-license\fR
.RS 4
Show license information
.RE
.SH "USAGE"
.PP
A standard way to run this program is by simply specifying the following command at the prompt
\fB\fBkbuildsycoca4\fR\fR
.SH "FILES"
.PP
/var/tmp/kde\-$USER/ksycoca4
.RS 4
The default directory where the cache files are stored\&.
.RE
.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
.PP
$\fBKDEDIRS\fR
.RS 4
Specifies which directories are part of the KDE installations
.RE
.PP
$\fBKDESYCOCA\fR
.RS 4
Specifies the path to the sycoca database file
.RE
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
kdeinit4
.SH "BUGS"
.PP
There are probably tons of bugs\&. Use
\m[blue]\fBbugs\&.kde\&.org\fR\m[]\&\s-2\u[1]\d\s+2
to report them\&.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
\fBDarian Lanx\fR <\&content@openprojects\&.net\&>
.RS 4
Author.
.RE
.SH "NOTES"
.IP " 1." 4
bugs.kde.org
.RS 4
\%http://bugs.kde.org
.RE