[Digikam-users] DigiKam with MySQL [solved]

[Guido von Thun]

Hi to all,

>>
>> I still hope that MySQL support will come back ASAP.

Me too!!!!


Regards
Guido


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Am 28.02.2015 um 09:13 schrieb Johannes Kapune:
> Hi Anders,
>
> first I found in:
> https://userbase.kde.org/Digikam/Tutorials
>   - Advanced Features
>       - Using digiKam with MySQL - how to migrate your data to MySQL so
> that you can use a server for your photos.
>
> from 2013.
>
> (https://userbase.kde.org/Digikam/Using_digiKam_with_MySQL)  from 2010
>
>
> First release I used had included MySQL support, but at that time I did
> not use. Now I'm happy about not using because otherwise all my work in
> metadata had gone to waste by upgrading.
>
>
>
> https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Digikam/CodingSprint2014
>
> yes, after some search I found this article where near at the end in
> "Task Details" they write:
>
> "MySQL support is now disabled by default because it's not fully
> functional and still experimental. MySQL support is still fully
> available of course, but as an optional feature."
>
>
> This makes my work on pictures now a little more difficult because it
> was planned to work from some different computer by different people on
> same collection of pictures (but not at same time), so server based data
> would help a lot. (Family use here)
>
> Now we will try to write all metadata always into the pictures (exif or
> ...?) but I'm sure there will come up some trouble.
>
>
> I still hope that MySQL support will come back ASAP.
> For me it would be also OK if I can save SQLite on same server where
> pictures are stored.
>
>
> Johannes
>
> Am 28.02.2015 um 08:22 schrieb Anders Stedtlund:
>> Hi Johannes,
>>
>> Maybe you could ask on the opensuse-kde mailing list:
>> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde/
>>
>> /Anders
>>
>> 2015-02-27 14:47 GMT+01:00 Johannes Kapune <listen at kapune.de>:
>>> Thanks for quick answer.
>>>
>>> I installed from:
>>>
>>>   http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_13.1/
>>>
>>>
>>> is there a repository where the mysql support is built in?
>>>
>>> Building myself is not what I want, and maybe not what I can do anyway
>>> because lack of experience
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Johannes
>>>
>>> Am 27.02.2015 um 12:42 schrieb Philip Johnsson:
>>>>
>>>> DigiKam need to be built with mysql support which is a experimental
>>>> feature due to lack of maintenance. If you can't select it maybe the
>>>> Suse package maintainer haven't turned it on when they built it. If you
>>>> really want it anyway you need to rebuild DigiKam with mysql support.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Philip
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 27, 2015 11:55 AM, "Johannes Kapune" <listen at kapune.de
>>>> <mailto:listen at kapune.de>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      Hello,
>>>>
>>>>      I'm using DigiKam 4.7.0 on a opensuse 13.1
>>>>
>>>>      first I use the SQLite as back end for storing metadata but now I
>>>>      want to change to MySQL or MariaDB.
>>>>
>>>>      I started the database server but if I try to choose in DigiKam
>>>> type
>>>>      of database I only can choose SQLite.
>>>>
>>>>      Do I miss something? I have to prepare something before choosing
>>>>      other database than SQLite?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      How I can do further tests?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      ps -A | grep my
>>>>        5533 ?        00:00:00 mysqld_safe
>>>>        5764 ?        00:00:01 mysqld
>>>>      11764 ?        00:05:09 mysqld
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      Johannes
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