Task Scheduler

[Daftboy]

Kind of a silly question but can anyone suggest how to go about finding out the Task Scheduler. Supposed to be found in System Settings > Advanced > ?? but that leads nowhere. 

Thanks. 

[Old-Polack]

Kind of a silly question but can anyone suggest how to go about finding out the Task Scheduler. Supposed to be found in System Settings > Advanced > ?? but that leads nowhere. 

Thanks. 

In KCC (Configure Your Desktop) This icon;

[Cris70]

uh? I don't have that item. Do I have to install something to enable that?

[Old-Polack]

uh? I don't have that item. Do I have to install something to enable that?

It's a part of the kdebase4-workspace-4.4.4-1pclos2010 package. If you are running the 2010.1 official release, it should already be installed. If you are running some other DE community release, you'll have to install that package, and whatever other dependencies it requires.

[Daftboy]

Old-Polack, thanks for the reply but that (Task Scheduler) is not showing up in the system settings. All I can see is K3b Setup, Login Manager, Policykit Authorization and Samba under system. I am running Platform 4.4.4 and the official 2010.1 release.

[marian]

I have the PCLOS KDE 2010 (not 2010.1) official release fully updated and kdebase4-workspace-4.4.4-1pclos2010 installed but no Task Scheduler.

[old_guy]

Daftboy
I looked at my PCLOS 2010 and did not see Task Scheduler either. I reloaded kdebase4-workspace and rebooted - still not there. I then checked task-kde4-extra which added task-kde4 and many other packages - rebooted and it was there.
Earl

[Daftboy]

Old_guy, thanks. I am going to check out the task-kde4-extra packages and see how it goes.

[Old-Polack]

Old-Polack, thanks for the reply but that (Task Scheduler) is not showing up in the system settings. All I can see is K3b Setup, Login Manager, Policykit Authorization and Samba under system. I am running Platform 4.4.4 and the official 2010.1 release.

Install the kdeadmin4 package from Synaptic.

[Daftboy]

I installed the task-kde4-extra package as mentioned by old_guy, which pulled in a lot of other packages as well and finally task scheduler did show up. Thanks for all the help. Maybe kdeadmin4 package would have been a smaller package to download!! 

[Old-Polack]

I installed the task-kde4-extra package as mentioned by old_guy, which pulled in a lot of other packages as well and finally task scheduler did show up. Thanks for all the help. Maybe kdeadmin4 package would have been a smaller package to download!! 

[root@littleboy ~]# rpm -ql kdeadmin4
/usr/bin/ksystemlog
/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_cron.so                                <-- This
/usr/share/applications/kde4/ksystemlog.desktop
/usr/share/apps/ksystemlog
/usr/share/apps/ksystemlog/ksystemlogui.rc
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcron
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcron/common
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcron/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcron/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcron/kcronstart.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcron/newtask.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcron/newvariable.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksystemlog
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksystemlog/common
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksystemlog/filter-process.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksystemlog/first-opening.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksystemlog/groupby-hour.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksystemlog/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksystemlog/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksystemlog/main-screen.png
/usr/share/doc/kdeadmin4-4.4.4
/usr/share/doc/kdeadmin4-4.4.4/README
/usr/share/kde4/services/kcm_cron.desktop              <-- And this
/usr/share/pixmaps/utilities-log-viewer.png

Task-kde4-extra brings in;
- amarok
- digikam
- k3b
- kaffeine
- konversation
- ktorrent
- kuickshow
- smb4k

I have all of these installed already, without having task-kde4-extra installed as a package.

[old_guy]

old-polack

# rpm -ql kdeadmin4
/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_cron.so                                <-- This

If I am trying to install Task Scheduler, how does one search already installed packages (kdeadmin4) pointing to (/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_cron.so) among many others get you to know what to install?
Earl

[Old-Polack]

old-polack

# rpm -ql kdeadmin4
/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_cron.so                                <-- This

If I am trying to install Task Scheduler, how does one search already installed packages (kdeadmin4) pointing to (/usr/lib/kde4/kcm_cron.so) among many others get you to know what to install?
Earl

In this case the old name of the app was kcron, (unchanged for 10+ years) so I did a Google search for kcron replacement in KDE4.  First hit was this;

http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.1_Feature_Plan

Which got this;



The next thing was the command already given to check for certain, as the description of the package's contents is not very good in Synaptic.

If one started with the full path to a particular known file, and wanted to know which package installed it;

[root@littleboy ~]# rpm -qf /usr/lib/kde4/kcm_cron.so
kdeadmin4-4.4.4-1pclos2010

[old_guy]

old-polack
Thanks, but to just follow up. I downloaded pclinuxos-kde-2010.1.iso from the link on the Main page and did a new install - no Task Scheduler.
Did a full update - 365MB - no Task Scheduler.
Finally loaded kdeadmin4 -2253kB - Task Scheduler now appears.
So it does not come without adding a package.
Earl

[jaydot]

Daftboy, if your issue is not resolved, please pm me to reopen thread.  everyone else, if you have a problem start your own thread.  if your post is of no use to the op and is information only , it should not be here.