Kio-fuse: command not found

[FurN1]

I’m trying to use kio-fuse to mound smb in Dolphin. Previous posts regarding this endeavor are here: Building ffmpeg-git, target not found: intel-graphics-compiler-bin and Cannot play video from smb in Dolphin.

So the problem is, my kio-fuse installation is not good for some reason. I installed it by

$ sudo pacman -S kio-fuse

However, when I want to run it, it prompts:

$ kio-fuse
-bash: kio-fuse: command not found

How do I solve this?

[leledumbo]

kio-fuse is not an application, it’s a service:

$ pacman -Ql kio-fuse
kio-fuse /usr/
kio-fuse /usr/lib/
kio-fuse /usr/lib/kio-fuse
kio-fuse /usr/lib/systemd/
kio-fuse /usr/lib/systemd/user/
kio-fuse /usr/lib/systemd/user/kio-fuse.service
kio-fuse /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/
kio-fuse /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/kio-fuse-tmpfiles.conf
kio-fuse /usr/share/
kio-fuse /usr/share/dbus-1/
kio-fuse /usr/share/dbus-1/services/
kio-fuse /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.KIOFuse.service

I don’t think you need kio-fuse for smb mounting in Dolphin, I can do that before installing this package.

[FurN1]

@leledumbo

kio-fuse is not an application, it’s a service:

Thanks for the info! Do I enable it like this?

$ systemctl enable kio-fuse
$ systemctl start kio-fuse

@leledumbo

I don’t think you need kio-fuse for smb mounting in Dolphin, I can do that before installing this package.

The thing is, ffmpeg (for mpv) or VLC does not take smb: url properly, hence the necessity for the kio-fuse.

[leledumbo]

@FurN1

Thanks for the info! Do I enable it like this?

It runs in userspace, so add --user as well.

@FurN1

The thing is, ffmpeg (for mpv) or VLC does not take smb: url properly, hence the necessity for the kio-fuse.

Oyea, for those you might need it.

[FurN1]

I’ve just learned from here that

kio-fuse is a DBus activated service, so for permanent installation the
installed service file has to be in a directory used by dbus-daemon.
If you're installing into a custom prefix, you may want to link
[prefix]/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.KIOFuse.service into
~/.local/share/dbus-1/services/ and
[prefix]/lib/systemd/user/kio-fuse.service into
~/.local/share/systemd/user/.

To make sure that the installed version is actually used, stop any already
running instance with "killall kio-fuse" and log out and in again.

So it seems that kio-fuse should be evoked by DBus rather than starting by systemctl. Then the following sentence says linking the dbus-1 and systemd stuff (by ln -s I assume?). I wonder is this linking necessary?

Anyway, I started the kio-fuse service by systemctl way, but there’s no change on Dolphin, the shared folder still goes by a name of smb: url in the tab, rather than mounted by kio-fuse. Could anyone kindly teach me how to use kio-fuse for Dolphin? Thanks a lot!

[papajoke]

Nothing to do for config this package !!!
it works : in dolphin open smb: and url is the same BUT with F4 we open terminal and can view clasic local Path (Prompt or by pwd)

How to have my Samba share show in file directory

You use kde ! Other way to access to smb:// by local file system without fstab (use kio-fuse package): If smb is mounted with dolphin, we can access by local directory: /run/user/<USER-ID>/kio-fuse-***/smb/<IP-SERVER> For test (and found directory): open smb directory in dolpin and open console by F4 [acapture_0913_051729.dolphin]

[FurN1]

Thank you very much! To open terminal in pwd by pressing F4 works, and I can play video files using mpv command. Just to confirm, is this the only way kio-fuse works with Dolphin GUI? Because I read from somewhere that when you open a smb folder in Dolphin, the tab (address bar) in the GUI will change to the virtual directory that kio-fuse creates rather than the smb:// url…

[papajoke]

no idea
but if i load movie from dolpin, in vlc , i can view /run/user/…

for mpv read this ?

[FurN1]

Thanks, I think I have got the idea about kio-fuse itself.

Yes I’m aware of the necessary steps for mpv to play video in smb, which has been discussed here (with the help of @Darksky): Building ffmpeg-git, target not found: intel-graphics-compiler-bin. Basically rebuild the ffmpeg so it has --enable-libsmbclient functionaliy, and then mpv depends on this to play smb videos.

The thing is, if I open video from terminal in the virtual directory kio-fuse creates, it seems there’s no need to use this --enable-libsmbclient at all. That would be another problem to discuss: to open smb video without kio-fuse using ffmpeg’s libsmbclient support, the url it receives must be in format like smb://<user>@<host>. What Dolphin passes to ffmpeg is smb://<host>. Knowing this, I think this is too much a hustle for me to solve, I’ll use your suggestions instead!