Qt_6.9 required by /usr/local/bin/startplasma-x11 not found

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I tried installing KDE tonight on 14.3-RELEASE amd64 but had no luck getting it to start. I had the error stated in the subject line when using startx to find the problem.

I am looking forward to the KDE installer option planned for 15 as I rarely get KDE running reliably on FreeBSD and always go back to GNOME. However, with GNOME about to be SystemD only and with gdm currently broken for real hardware on FreeBSD, I thought it would be good time to switch now. It is a pity the KDE install on my hardware can't find the Qt bits it needs.

Fortunately, ZFS rollback to the rescue and I am now back on GNOME. Only two months to go until cheap used laptop season starts. I will probably wait until I buy a secondary (spare) machine to have another go at this. I am going to change the way I work by using two identical laptops, applying updates to the spare first. This should prevent messing up my ability to work. ZFS replication keeps them synced up overnight so I have a spare ready to go at the start of each day.
 
Very weird, I currently run KDE (plasma 6.4.3) with FreeBSD 14.3 as my daily driver with no issues. Actually it's pretty strange that you managed to install KDE without the Qt libraries. How did you install the packages? In my case it was simply a matter of pkg install kde lightdm-kde-greeter and doas sysrc lightdm_enable="YES".
 
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I did the same as you. It installed Qt, but when KDE starts it wanted a different version than it installed. I deleted KDE and Qt then changed repos to quarterly and tried installing again and got the same result. I have a spare old 64-bit laptop that hasn't been used in a couple of years that probably has 12.x installed with GNOME. I have some time next week, I will wipe the hard drive and attempt a fresh install of 14.3 with KDE on it.
 
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