Error starting Digikam 5 on Linux Mint 18

[Gilles Caulier]

Phillips,

-Exiv2 0.16-svn, not yet released. No video file support yet, but more than
200 files closed in bugzilla since 0.25.
-OpenCV 3.1, with minimal configuration (typically all extra options
disabled).
- KF5 5.28
- Qt 5.7.0
- Lensfun 0.3.2
-Gphoto2 2.5.11

... as i remember.

Gilles Caulier

2016-12-08 21:10 GMT+01:00 Philip Johnsson <philip.johnsson at gmail.com>:

> Kim,
> You can compare different builds from my packages in my PPA and the
> appimage to see what different features are supported and what dependent
> library versions for functionality if you compare components in digikam >
> Help > Component Information. The appimage can also have in between fixes
> and my packages are always official version releases and usually have new
> fixes when the next official release is out.
>
> /Philip
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:29 PM, Kim <kim.mills at wightman.ca> wrote:
>
>> Philip,
>> That was the problem thanks! It showed libexiv2-14 installed version
>> 0.25-trusty~ppa2 and the latest version 0.25-xenial~ppa2.  I forced it to
>> upgrade and then Digikam started right up.
>>
>> I had already downloaded and installed the app image version though.  Is
>> there any advantage to running the one version over the other?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kim
>>
>>
>> On 2016-12-07 04:51 PM, Philip Johnsson wrote:
>>
>> Kim,
>> Looks like a mismatch of what version of Exiv2 my packages are built
>> against in my PPA and what you now have installed on your system. Check
>> were your libexiv2-14 packages comes from and the version.
>>
>> /Philip
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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