[Digikam-users] How to remove IPTC tags.

[Geoff King]

Re: [Digikam-users] How to remove IPTC tags.

> > Yes, i compiled SVN version about 1 month ago and i was contact with KDE devs
> > via IRC and it couldn't get solved. I should try it again with new SVN
> > version. I just toke newest version from Mandriva Cooker.
> >
> > Current version of:
> > Digikam is 0.9.3 Beta3 (0.9.3-0.beta3.2mdv2008.1)
> > Exiv2 is 0.16-0.pre1 (0.16-0.pre1.3mdv2008.1)
> > libexiv2 is 0.15 (0.15-2mdv2008.0)
> > libexiv2_2 is 0.16-0.pre1 (0.16-0.pre1.3mdv2008.1)
> > libkexiv2 is 0.1.6 (0.1.6-4mdv2008.1)
> > libkexiv21 is 0.1.5 (0.1.5-4mdv2008.0)
> > libkexiv23 is 0.1.6 (0.1.6-4mdv2008.1)
>
> Why do you have two libexiv2 and two libkexiv2
> (maybe you could remove  libexiv2 and libkexiv21)?
>

I would agree this is the place to look.  Why are there all these
versions of libexiv2 here?
Do you have both Mandriva packages and SVN version on your system?  If
so this could give you problems, unless you are very careful.
First thing I would try is to remove everything (both packages and
SVN) related to digikam and start fresh.

To remove the digikam from SVN do something such as 'sudo make
uninstall' in each of the digikam, exiv2, and other related libs
directories. Also make sure they are not installed by your system
package manager (not sure what this is called on Mandriva).

Then optionally, check for successful removal by using 'locate' to
find all instances of libexiv2/libkexiv2, etc (make sure to 'updatedb'
first as root).  Maybe even manually remove some files as necessary,
but be careful and make sure you know what you are doing here - you
could break other program dependencies I suppose.

Once everything is all cleaned out, either re-install only the
Mandriva stuff or SVN stuff.  For SVN first re-install exiv2 0.15
final, then the libs from svn, then digikam from SVN.

I had to do this sort of thing a couple months ago and it solved my problems.
I hope this helps.
Geoff