there are two invalid statements in the KDE initialization script (csh) that break it: 1) the statment kdepath="${KDEDIR}/bin" should really be set kdepath="${KDEDIR}/bin" 2) the statement if ( echo ${PATH} | grep -q ${kdepath} ) then should really be something like if ( `echo ${PATH} | grep -q ${kdepath}` ) then so that | is interpreted as pipe rather than bitwise or
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3686 ***