Darian Lanx

    content@openprojects.net

2001-04-25
0.01.01
KBuildSycoca 8
Description Rebuilds the system configuration cache.

## Synopsis

`tdebuildsycoca` --nosignal --incremental --help --help-qt --help-tde --help-all --author -v, --version --license

## Description

`kbuildsyscoca`, as part of the &tde; command line tools ensures the proper operation of &tde; by reading in all the `.desktop`, `.directory`, `.kimgio` and `.protocol` files to constructs a binary database.

&tde; itself accesses this databse during operation to provide configurational information a program needs to run.

This tool is part of ksyscoca, which stands for &tde; System Configuration Cache

## Options

`--nosignal`

  Don't signal applications

`--incremental`

  Incremental Update

`--help`

  Show help about options

`--help-qt`

  Show Qt specific options

`--help-tde`

  Show KDE specific options

`--help-all`

  Show all options

`--author`

  Show author information

`--version`

  Show version information

`--license`

  Show license information

## Usage

A standard way to run this program is by simply specifying the following command at the prompt ``kbuildsyscoca``

## Files

`/tmp/tde-$USER/ksyscoca`

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## Environment Variables

$`TDEDIRS`

  Specifies which directories are part of the KDE installations

## See Also

tdesycoca(3), kblah(4), knogga(6)

## Bugs

There are no known bugs at the time of writing.