Bug 514944

Summary: Dolphin requires Baloo; I do not
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Henry Pfeil <hpfeil>
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM    
Severity: major CC: dolphin-bugs-null, nate, nicolas.fella
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Slackware   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Henry Pfeil 2026-01-22 18:18:50 UTC 
$ dolphin --version
dolphin: error while loading shared libraries: libKF5Baloo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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SUMMARY
Dolphin requires Baloo; I do not. 

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Invoke Dolphin without Baloo.

OBSERVED RESULT
Refuses to open. See above error message.

EXPECTED RESULT
As advertised.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.12
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.116.0
Qt Version: 5.15.18

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Slackware64-current.
Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2026-01-22 19:26:59 UTC 
This is a packaging issue, please contact your distribution