[Digikam-users] kde4 upgrade issues

[Simon Oosthoek]

Simon Oosthoek wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I've just upgraded my PC and decided to upgrade to 64bit kubuntu and of
> course, digikam 0.10 (from svn).
> 
> After the usual annoyances with pre-installed exiv2 packages I managed
> to compile it due to the detailed wiki instructions, however I still
> have problems running digikam...
> 
> I had a very large database in digikam 0.9.5 and when starting 0.10, I
> get lots of errors like:
> Error: Directory SubImage1 with 29280 entries considered invalid; not read.
> 
> And then the final situation in digikam is that it shows all
> directories, but no image files at all.
> 
> Another problem, though not directly related to digikam is that in order
> to compile digikam, I need to uninstall gwenview and exiv2 (0.17) of the
> distribution packages and recompile gwenview from sources/svn, because
> I'm using a custom exiv2 lib.
> 
> Any suggestions (esp, for the first problem!)
> 

Hmm, after restarting digikam it somehow does seem to work now... But I
guess the upgrade procedure might be a little rough on unsuspecting users...

Cheers

Simon