[Digikam-users] Digikam 4.0 won't run on Linux Mint 17.1: vanishes after album scan

[Tom Rank]

Still no progress, I fear:

I've carried out these tasks (having first removed the repositories from 
the software updater in case of problems):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip5/extra
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
  Ubuntu experimental rolling release repository.
[....]

Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring 
--homedir /tmp/tmp.QjC9XhFT8A --no-auto-check-trustdb --trust-model 
always --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring 
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 
--recv-keys 43C56F3F
gpg: requesting key 43C56F3F from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 43C56F3F: "Launchpad extra" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip5/kubuntu-backports
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
[...]
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring 
--homedir /tmp/tmp.ayTrF3agjJ --no-auto-check-trustdb --trust-model 
always --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring 
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 
--recv-keys 43C56F3F
gpg: requesting key 43C56F3F from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 43C56F3F: "Launchpad extra" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for tom:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
....

Digikam is still stuck on version 4.0.0 (KDE 4.14.2), still no photos 
visible. I tried right click over a directory name: 'show in file 
manger' - that crashes Digikam.

Any help?

Tom

On 15/12/14 21:02, Philip Johnsson wrote:
> If you don't have it available then something is wrong how you added the
> repository. Maybe you don't have included the PPAs key that makes the
> PPA trusted? This can be done automatically if you use the
> add-apt-repository command:
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip5/extra
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip5/kubuntu-backports   (only use this
> PPA if you are sure that you use KDE 4.14 and not with KDE 4.13)
> sudo apt-get update
>
> If digikam is installed before then:
>
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> This will either just update all what's needed from my PPAs or tell you
> if there is some kind of conflict that holds anything back that needs to
> be solved.
>
> /Philip
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Tom Rank <tom at literaryconnections.co.uk
> <mailto:tom at literaryconnections.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     Thanks again. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu 14.04, and my version
>     uses KDE 4.14. I've added the "extra" and the "kubuntu-backports"
>     PPAs to my software sources - but it still loads version 4.0.0,
>     which has the problem that it won't show my photos. I even tried:
>     sudo apt-get install digikam=4.5.0
>
>     But it replied:
>     E: Version ‘4.5.0’ for ‘digikam’ was not found
>
>     With other software, I recall that adding an extra PPA gave me the
>     newest version when it was not available in the official repository.
>     That doesn’t seem to be happening here.
>
>     Thanks for  any help!
>
>     Tom
>
>
>     On 15/12/14 19:01, Philip Johnsson wrote:
>
>         Good to know that you are having progress.
>
>         I don't use Linux Mint so I'm not sure which versions are based
>         on which
>         Ubuntu versions. You should use trusty if your Linux Mint is
>         based on
>         ubuntu 14.04 and utopic if it's based on Ubuntu 14.10.
>
>         Before you add my "kubuntu-backports" PPA you should make sure what
>         version of KDE libs your system is using. If it's using KDE 4.13
>         then
>         you shouldn’t use the "kubuntu-backports" PPA at all.
>         "kubuntu-backports" PPA is meant to be used with KDE 4.14 and
>         then you
>         use BOTH the "extra" and the "kubuntu-backports" PPA.
>
>         /Phili
>
>
>
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