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

[Charles Morel]

Well, I've come this far, might as well see what happens.

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Arnd Baecker <arnd.baecker at web.de> wrote:

>  On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, David Aldred wrote:
>
> > 2008/9/22 David Aldred <david at familyaldred.org.uk>
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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
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