Running qalculate-qt on KDE plasma gives "undefined symbol" error

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Linux 5.15.133-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 23 10:10:02 UTC 2023 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I first installed manjaro with cinnamon on my PC (intel core2duo, 4GB RAM) and then installed qalculate-gtk. it was working fine.

Then I installed KDE Plasma along with cinnamon and then logged in again in plasma.

But now qalculate does not run. I installed qalculate-qt again and tried to run it. But I still get the error:
qalculate-qt: symbol lookup error: qalculate-qt: undefined symbol: _ZN10Calculator33setConciseUncertaintyInputEnabledEb

How do I fix this?

Regards,
Srikk

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oh, actually I’m using qalculate-gtk-nognome on KDE - partly because the QT variant wouldn’t let me remove individual history items without doing a context click (GTK can arrow and shift-delete to remove selected items) if I remember.

However, I just installed qalculate-qt and there are no errors, so I’m sorry - no dice.

However, I would say it’s a pretty bad idea to install KDE ‘alongside’ Cinnamon. I tried Cinnamon before I used KDE, and it didn’t play nicely until I sorted out a fresh install.

So, first action, ensure you have a nice rsync backup on another drive containing all your hidden configs in home… and think about a fresh install of KDE and import settings which are useful.

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I just installed it, specifically to test it:

$ pamac install qalculate-qt --no-upgrade
Preparing...
Resolving dependencies...
Checking inter-conflicts...

To install (1):
qalculate-qt  4.8.1-1    extra

Total installed size: 3.8 MB

Apply transaction ? [y/N] y
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.manjaro.pamac.commit ====
Authentication is required to install, update, or remove packages
Authenticating as: Mirdarthos (mirdarthos)
Password:
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Checking available disk space...                                                                                                                                                                                                                        [1/1]
Installing qalculate-qt (4.8.1-1)...                                                                                                                                                                                                                    [1/1]
Running post-transaction hooks...
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Updating icon theme caches...                                                                                                                                                                                                                           [2/4]
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Transaction successfully finished.

I added the --no-upgrade argument so as not to upgrade Chromium and Vivaldi from the AUR, which would have made this a substantially bigger download.

And tested it:

$ qalculate-qt
$

As you can see, I had no problems. This leads me to think you have a partially updated system and you should upgrade your whole system first.

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