[Digikam-users] Problems upgrading DigiKam on Linux Mint

[Mick Sulley]

No, sorry, my methods tend to be trial and error with my fingers crossed 
:)  I would try installing the -dev versions of packages that are 
involved, I believe these contain the headers that may be needed, but 
just guessing.  You could also install digikam-dbg which contains debug 
stuff, if you search the forum there are instruction on how to use it.

There are many knowledgeable people on this forum, hopefully someone 
will point you in the right direction.

Cheers
Mick

On 25/02/15 23:48, Kim wrote:
> 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
>
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