Bug 405872

This is a build issue.

Here's my problem. I wanted a newer version of KDEConnect that what's available for my distro, so I'm trying to build KDEConnect from source. However, when I install it, several important library files get installed to /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu. This is weird, since my system is 64 bit, thus the files should be installed to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu. AFAIK, nothing gets installed to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu. IDK if I'm doing something wrong, or if there's a bug in cmake, or what.

I got KDEConnect from this git repository: https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdeconnect-kde.git

These are the commands I ran:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
make
sudo make install

KDEConnect works, and I'm able to pair my laptop to my phone, but I can't do anything beyond that: I can't browse the device (via sftp), I can't read/send SMS messages... heck, I can't even see how much battery my phone has.

Creating a symlink in "/usr/lib/x86_64/qt5/plugins/kdeconnect", and having said link point to "/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kdeconnect" seems to fix the issue (kdeconnectd will need to be restarted), but I find it odd that I even need to do that.

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04. I don't know much about make or cmake, so IDK what I can do on my end.