Big thanks the work
I am not able to scan for available networks with plasma.
I am running Debian 13 and building kde packages from source.
The current commit of smb4k is 0f8ac82fbd307674b2bba7e2a480452720115735
Any help is trully appeciated
Hi,
It misses zeroconf
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@alfred07 thanks for the reply. And Apologies in advance, this is the first time I am hearing about this software, do I don’t know much about it.
The debian docs associate zeroconf with avahi daemon. Which as you can see is running successfully. I have not installed it specifically.
I have also installed kio-zeroconf, same behavior.
On the apt store, there is also the python3-zeroconf package. I tried installing it and buildig smb4k again but no change.
Please advise. What is the native way (kde-builder if possible) to install this package? How can I check that is installed successfully?
I understand now by looking more closely at the title of your post.
I also work with Debian 13. The plasma version is 5.27.11.
So you must have compiled version 6. You have courage. Especially on a Debian.
So don’t be surprised if some applications don’t work.
If you want to use plasma 6, choose a distribution that has already packaged it: EndeavourOS, OpenSuse, … See here: Distributions - KDE Community Wiki
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Zeroconf support is not available in this version of KDE.
Unsupported
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Not courage. Ignorance. And that’s why I’m spending a lot of time trying to understand the details of the tools I work with.
Not surprised.
I have read through the docs, thanks
@Angus thanks for the reply
Not sure what to make of the warning because as far as I can tell, the dns-sd service is running thanks to avahi.
In the cmake.log we can’t see it as a missing optional dependency either
How can i be sure that this DNS-SD lib is discoverable in my system?
I understand that the issue originates from kdnssd not discovering the Avahi service.
Still stuck on how to fix
kdnssd is just a helper for KIO apps - daft q, but you do have libKF6DNSSD6, don’t you?
Does the Journal (or the logfile mentioned above) say anything interesting?
Do you have a hole in Firewall?
/etc/apparmor.d/... rule if running
You don’t have KDE Connect running too do you?
daft q, but you do have libKF6DNSSD6, don’t you?
Not daft at all. I had not. I’ve installed it with apt but warning is still seen
Does the Journal (or the logfile mentioned above) say anything interesting?
No sir. When I try to scan for networks it only reports:
smb4k Neither size nor group specified!
Do you have a hole in Firewall?
Possible… I’m still running the defaults
/etc/apparmor.d/...rule if running
No dns sd specifc rule
You don’t have KDE Connect running too do you?
I do. Pretty sure it was from plasma-workspace package. Should i end it?
Thanks a bunch
You will be looking for the -dev packages for anything pulled in during compilation. (e.g. Debian -- Details of package libkf6dnssd-dev in trixie)
the smb4k error suggests it is not getting any response from queries, but that could be firewall, or simply nothing there to respond to queries.
You’ll probably know when you are getting somewhere… 
Issue is solved by installing the deb package libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev
Thanks everyone
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