Bug#815030: artikulate: cannot download any courses

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:15:05 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: artikulate
> Version: 4:15.12.1-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> I cannot download any courses with artikulate and it isn't useful without 
them.
> 
> I get this error in the download courses dialog:
> 
> Loading of providers from 
file:Â http://edu.kde.org/artikulate/downloads/providers.xmlÂ; fail
> 
> The URL in that message works, as does the URL mentioned in providers.xml.
> 
> I see these messages in the terminal where I launched artikulate:
> 
> knewstuff: Initializing KNS3::Engine from ' "artikulate.knsrc" '
> No frame loaded
> No frame loaded
> No frame loaded
> knewstuff: Loading KNewStuff3 config:Â Â "artikulate.knsrc"
> knewstuff: Categories:Â Â ()
> knewstuff: Using registry 
file:Â Â "/home/pabs/.local/share/knewstuff3/artikulate.knsregistry"
> knewstuff: Loading KNS2 registry of files for the component:Â Â "artikulate"
> knewstuff: Cache read... entries:Â Â 0
> knewstuff: loading providers 
from  "http://edu.kde.org/artikulate/downloads/providers.xml";
> knewstuff: XmlLoader::load(): 
url:Â Â QUrl("http://edu.kde.org/artikulate/downloads/providers.xml";)
> klauncher not running... launching kdeinit
> klauncher not running... launching kdeinit
> couldn't create slave: "Cannot talk to klauncher: The name 
org.kde.klauncher5 was not provided by any .service files"

Do you have kinit and/or kio installed?  If not, I'd appreciate it if you'd 
see if installing one or the other helps.

Scott K