[Digikam-users] Problems upgrading DigiKam on Linux Mint

[Kim]

Thanks for trying to help Mick!  I tried following what you suggested 
and I could get DigiKam 4.7 to install, but when I try to open it it 
crashes on the starting splash screen.

This is the terminal display when it happens.

Object::connect: No such signal 
org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceAdded(QDBusObjectPath)
Object::connect: No such signal 
org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceRemoved(QDBusObjectPath)
digikam(30289) Phonon::KdePlatformPlugin::createBackend: using backend:  
"GStreamer"
digikam: symbol lookup error: digikam: undefined symbol: 
_ZNK11KExiv2Iface14AltLangStrEdit8textEditEv

Do you know how to fix it?

Thanks,
Kim

On 15-02-25 05:23 PM, Mick Sulley wrote:
> 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