[Digikam-users] DigiKam won't open from desktop menu

[Arnd Baecker]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, David Aldred wrote:

> 2008/9/22 David Aldred <david at familyaldred.org.uk>
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> >
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> > 2008/9/22 Charles Morel <chazzmor at gmail.com>
> >
> >> I installed digikam from the Add/Remove software feature of the advanced
> >> desktop menu. I just did a search and even manually checked the list of
> >> packages and libexiv2 is not listed.
> >>
> >> When installing the digiKam package I didn't install libkipi-devel,
> >> digikam-devel or digiKam-doc, because I assumed they were for developers.
> >> Could libexiv2 be in one of those?
> >>
> >
> > Charles, wait a couple of hours and I'll be home and can check on my One.
> > I thought I'd seen libexiv2 in the Add/Remove list, but I may have misread
> > libkexiv.....
> >
> > (Arnd, is that definitely the package name?  I have vague memories of a
> > package called exiv2-libs instead at some point.....)
> >
>
> OK, back home now.
>
> Charles, you're right; there's no libexiv2 package in the repository.
>
> However, my memory wasn't playing me up: there is an exiv2-libs package
> (exiv2-libs-0.15-4.fc8.i386).  Arnd, according to
> http://hany.sk/~hany/RPM/libexiv2.so.0.html this package would provide
> libexiv2.so.0; I'd say it was worth trying it - do you agree?

Yes, that's definitively worth a try! ;-)

> If it works, presumably there's just a dependency error in the Fedora 8
> package for Digikam.

Sounds quite likely after your analysis.

Best, Arnd