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I've installed ubuntu 12.04 and installed okular but with normal user i can't run okular and give me an error that "Unable to find the Okular component." but with root user i can run it without any errors. what should i do?

I've tried to purge and install okular itself, but this has not worked.

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Morteza Tavanarad
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You should never run GUI programs as root unless explicitly noted. Changes are that files in your home directory now have wrong ownership. Find those files and restore the ownership:

  1. Open a terminal

  2. (optional, but recommended for verifying) Find all files that are not owned by you:

    sudo find ~ ! -user $(id -u) -ls

  3. Find all files and restore the ownership to yours:

    sudo find ~ ! -user $(id -u) -exec chown $(id -u) {} \; -ls

If unsure, you can leave a comment here with a link to http://paste.ubuntu.com/ containing the output of step 2.

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