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

[Tom Rank]

Ho Philip

Thanks your patience. Here's the result, which I don't find very 
helpful. It seems to tell me that it would like to install Digikam but 
can't:

sudo apt-get install digikam=4:4.5.0-trusty~ppa1kde414
[...]

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  digikam : Depends: digikam-data (= 4:4.5.0-trusty~ppa1kde414) but 
4:4.0.0-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.04~ppa2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

So, I tried these commands:

sudo apt-get install -f

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
   digikam-data libastro1 libattica0.4 libkdcraw-data libkdcraw23 libkdeui5
   libkexiv2-11 libkexiv2-data libkface-data libkface2 libkfile4
   libkgeomap-data libkgeomap1 libkhtml5 libkio5 libkipi-data libkipi11
   libkjsapi4 libknotifyconfig4 libkparts4 libktexteditor4 libmarblewidget19
   libpgf6 libsolid4 libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0 libthreadweaver4
   marble-data
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 11 not to upgrade.

sudo apt-get autoremove

Removed:
digikam-data libastro1 libattica0.4 libkdcraw-data libkdcraw23 libkdeui5
   libkexiv2-11 libkexiv2-data libkface-data libkface2 libkfile4
   libkgeomap-data libkgeomap1 libkhtml5 libkio5 libkipi-data libkipi11
   libkjsapi4 libknotifyconfig4 libkparts4 libktexteditor4 libmarblewidget19
   libpgf6 libsolid4 libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0 libthreadweaver4
   marble-data

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get autoclean

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get autoremove

... but I still get the same message after
sudo apt-get install digikam=4:4.5.0-trusty~ppa1kde414

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Sorry, I'm stuck again!

Tom


On 18/12/14 19:24, Philip Johnsson wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Then we know you have the PPAs but that digikam 4.5 is held back by
> conflicting packages.
>
> To find out why it's held back you can try to install digikam 4.5 and
> you will have information on what packages is not installing that
> digikam 4.5 is dependent on. Probably some KDE package.
>
> Try this command and see what it say is not going to be installed and
> try to install that package and so on to follow a chain of conflicting
> packages.
>
> "sudo apt-get install digikam=4:4.5.0-trusty~ppa1kde414"
>
> /Philip
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Tom Rank <tom at literaryconnections.co.uk
> <mailto:tom at literaryconnections.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Philip
>
>     Thanks: you're right, it does show 4.5 waiting in one archive, but
>     not installed:
>
>     apt-cache policy digikam
>     digikam:
>        Installed: 4:4.0.0-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.04~__ppa2
>        Candidate: 4:4.0.0-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.04~__ppa2
>        Version table:
>           4:4.5.0-trusty~ppa1kde414 0
>              500
>     http://ppa.launchpad.net/__philip5/kubuntu-backports/__ubuntu/
>     <http://ppa.launchpad.net/philip5/kubuntu-backports/ubuntu/>
>     trusty/main amd64 Packages
>           4:4.5.0-trusty~ppa1 0
>              500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/__philip5/extra/ubuntu/
>     <http://ppa.launchpad.net/philip5/extra/ubuntu/> trusty/main amd64
>     Packages
>       *** 4:4.0.0-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.04~__ppa2 0
>              700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ rebecca/import amd64
>     Packages
>              100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>           4:3.5.0-0ubuntu10 0
>              500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/__ubuntu/
>     <http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/> trusty/universe amd64 Packages
>
>     Best wishes
>
>     Tom
>
>     On 18/12/14 09:00, Philip Johnsson wrote:
>
>         Could you run this commands from a terminal/shell and tell me
>         what it
>         outputs (without the "")?
>
>         "apt-cache policy digikam"
>
>         It should display all the versions of digikam that your system
>         have in
>         its resources available for apt to install. If you use both my
>         PPAs it
>         should display them both as possible versions and also other
>         older versions.
>
>         There must be something missing or conflicting when it comes to
>         repositories or packages.
>
>         /Philip
>
>
>
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