#1126574 kdevelop: With Debian 13 Trixie, KDevelop's Embedded Terminal does not work correctly

Package:
kdevelop
Source:
kdevelop
Description:
integrated development environment for C/C++ and other languages
Submitter:
Gerhard Horecky
Date:
2026-01-28 21:09:17 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1126574#5
Date:
2026-01-28 20:19:32 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

In KDevelop, I opened the embedded terminal (a toolview). With that, I
got immediately error messages like:

qdbus: could not find a Qt installation of ''
Got no path

Consequently, the commands 's!' and 'b!' didn't work but produce the
same error messages.

As a workaround, I created a script `/usr/local/bin/qdbus`:
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#!/bin/sh
# Debian 13 / Qt6 workaround:
# KDE tools (e.g. KDevelop embedded terminal) expect `qdbus` on PATH,
# but qdbus-qt6 installs it only under /usr/lib/qt6/bin and qtchooser
# does not reliably handle Qt6.  This wrapper restores the expected
# `qdbus` command without modifying packaged files.
#
exec /usr/lib/qt6/bin/qdbus "$@"
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With this wrapper, the embedded terminal works as expected for me.

This bug report should perhaps be reassigned to packages regarding
Qt5/6 configuration.

Best regards,
Gerhard