[Digikam-users] Digikam crashing on launching for the first time

[Andrew Goodbody]

On 23/03/16 17:30, Swati Lodha wrote:
> Hello
>
> I built digiKam successfully but when I launched it first time, I
> encountered the following error:
>
>     root at swati-HP-Pavilion-15-Notebook-PC:/home/swati# digikam

I have no idea what your problem is. However you should never run a 
normal application like digikam as root. The root user should be used 
for the absolute minimum necessary when changing system configuration 
etc. For everything else, run as a regular user.

Andrew