[Digikam-users] Digikam 2.2 does not start on OpenSuse 11.4

[Remco Viëtor]

On Sunday 09 October 2011 11:54:16 guenter wrote:
> Am 08.10.2011 22:11, schrieb Will Stephenson:
> > On Thursday 06 Oct 2011 15:25:32 Sven Burmeister wrote:
> >> Am Donnerstag, 6. Oktober 2011, 09:18:17 schrieb Larry:
> >>> I've recently upraded from DK 2.1.0 to 2.2, but was not able to
> >>> start it since.
> >>> 
> >>> When I start DK 2.2 in konsole (terinal) I get
> >>> "QSqlDatabasePrivate::removeDatabase: connection 'ConnectionTest' is
> >>> still in use, all queries will cease to work" a DK splashscreen
> >>> comes
> >>> up and disappears and then "digikam: symbol lookup error: digikam:
> >>> undefined symbol:
> >>> _ZN11KExiv2Iface14AltLangStrEdit15setLinesVisibleEj"
> >>> is displayed.
> >>> 
> >>> I'm running OpenSuse 11.4 64 bit with KDE 4.7.1
> >>> I have also upgraded to KDE 4.7.2 last night, but it didn't fix it
> >>> I have upgraded libkexiv2-9 from version 4.6.0-6.11.1 to version
> >>> 4.6.5-11.4 and upgraded libkexiv2-10 from version 4.7.2-3.1 to
> >>> version
> >>> 4.7.3-12.1
> >>> 
> >>> but that didn't help either. Any idea how to make DK2.2 run on
> >>> Opensuse?>> 
> >> I'll post this to opensuse-kde at opensuse.org as that's where the
> >> maintainer is.
> > 
> > I've read the thread on digikam-users and while I'm not entirely sure
> > where the problem lies, my money is on your system having a cocktail of
> > packages from incompatible repositories.
> > 
> > KDE:UpdatedApps just contains applications, not the platform.
> > 
> > KDE:Release:4x contains the KDE platform and the applications.
> > 
> > You say you are running 4.7.2 which implies you are using
> > KDE:Release:47, but you also say that you upgraded (digikam?) from
> > KDE:UpdatedApps, which is not built vs KR47.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Hi Will,
> 
> but isn't this an error in the digikam package in KDE:UpdatedApps?
> Shouldn't be set the dependencies in a way to see that there isn't KDE
> 4.7.2 installed?
> 
> A friend of mine went in the same trap with digikam (2.2.0) from this
> repo. Having "only" KDE 4.6.0 from the original openSuse distro and
> update repos. So I disabled KDE:UpdatedApps and switched her back to
> digikam 1.8.0 :-(
> 

I use the KDE4.7 repositories, there you'll find KDE 2.1.0 (for now).

Remco