[Digikam-users] Problems upgrading DigiKam on Linux Mint

[Philip Johnsson]

Kim

First: The "digikam: symbol lookup error: digikam: undefined symbol:
_ZNK11KExiv2Iface14AltLangStrEdit8textEditEv" error mean that you don't
have the correct updated versions of libkexiv2-11 on your system that
digikam and maybe not  libexiv2-13 either. Check that those packages you
have installed comes from my PPA as they are updated.

Second: I don't use Linux Mint but isn't Linux Mint 17.1 a LTS release? I
think I have read others using that version and that Linux mint have some
setting only to use what's considered stable sources. If you run the
following command:

apt-cache policy digikam

Then you will get all your avalible sources of digikam and their versions.
PPAs are 700 sources but I think Linux Mint LTS only allow to update 500
sources (considered stable source). I have never taken any time to check
how you change this on a Linux Mint system (or Debian system) but maybe
other Linux Mint users have done this. Otherwise you have to force install
each package and that's not that easy as you have to know all the packages
needed to update but are held back by Linux Mint LTS.

Regards,

Philip



On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Mick Sulley <mick at sulley.info> wrote:

> 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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