[Digikam-users] Problems upgrading DigiKam on Linux Mint

[Mick Sulley]

OK I have just updated to 4.7, it was not quite straightforward :)

 From past experience if you just select the upgrade you get a message 
that DigiKam will be removed.  What I did was to search digikam in 
Synaptic and remove all the packages that it finds, 11 packages, disable 
the PPAs then run Edit>Fix Broken Packages and reload.  I then enabled 
the PPAs and tried installing packages one at a time, running fix broken 
and reload after each one, some installed some didn't.  After a lot of 
trial and error I fond that disabling the philip5/kubuntu-backports PPAs 
allowed me to install and I now have 4.7 up and running with just the 
extra PPA enabled.

I don't know why this is so, perhaps if Philip reads this he could 
comment, but bottom line DK 4.7 is working for me.

btw are you aware of the memory issue that is still around?  If you do 
pretty much anything with face tags the memory usage just grows until 
the system crashes.  See

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323888

for details on that.

Cheers
Mick


On 25/02/15 21:41, Mick Sulley wrote:
> I am running Mint 17 Cinnamon 64 bit and I have Digikam installed. I 
> have PPAs -
>
> philip5/kubuntu-backports (Sources)
> philip5/kubuntu-backports
> philip5/extras (Sources)
> philip5/extras
>
> Currently I have DK 4.6 installed, Synaptic shows 4.7 as the latest 
> and I am about to upgrade to that.
>
> Let me know if there is anything else I can tell you about my system 
> that may help you.
>
> Mick
>
>
> On 25/02/15 15:54, Kim wrote:
>> I'm running Linux Mint 17.1 (cinnamon), it has DigiKam 4.0.0 but I've 
>> found it to be very unstable on my laptop and I'm trying to upgrade 
>> to a newer version.  I have Philip's ppa installed both kubunto 
>> backports and extras, however it still wont let me install anything 
>> newer then version 4.  Looking at the ppa version 4.7 should be 
>> available.
>> Has anyone had this problem with Mint?  When I'm in the synaptic it 
>> doesn't show that a DigiKam upgrade is available and if I uninstall 
>> the current version and refresh it still only gives me version 4.0 as 
>> an option.
>> Any ideas how to get an upgraded version?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kim
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