[digiKam-users] appimage not loading: symbol lookup error

[digikam at 911networks.com]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 14:08:27 +0200
Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just integrated this pre-loading in internal AppImage run bash
> script. Please try again with this version :
> 
> digikam-6.0.0-git-20180705T134252-x86-64.appimage
> <https://files.kde.org/digikam/digikam-6.0.0-git-20180705T134252-x86-64.appimage>

Nope on Manjaro and Centos 7.2:

$ downloads/appimages/digikam-6.0.0-git-20180705T134252-x86-64.appimage 
-- digiKam AppImage Bundle
-- Use 'help' as CLI argument to know all available options for digiKam application
digikam: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Done_MM_Var


env LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libfreetype.so" downloads/appimages/digikam-6.0.0-git-20180705T134252-x86-64.appimage 
-- digiKam AppImage Bundle
-- Use 'help' as CLI argument to know all available options for digiKam application
Digikam::DXmlGuiWindow::setupIconTheme: Breeze icons resource file found
Digikam::AlbumWatch::AlbumWatch: AlbumWatch use QFileSystemWatcher
Digikam::AlbumManager::setDatabase: Database Parameters:
   Type:                     "QSQLITE"
   DB Core Name:             "/home/froggy/downloads/appimages/digikam4.db"
   DB Thumbs Name:           "/home/froggy/downloads/appimages/thumbnails-digikam.db"
   DB Face Name:             "/home/froggy/downloads/appimages/recognition.db"
   DB Similyritiy Name:      "/home/froggy/downloads/appimages/similarity.db"
   Connect Options:          ""
   Host Name:                ""
   Host port:                -1
   Internal Server:          false
   Internal Server Path:     ""
   Internal Server Serv Cmd: ""
   Internal Server Init Cmd: ""
   Username:                 ""
   Password:                 ""

I appreciate all the hard work of the team, but instead of spending your
time on this, why not just document it. And tell the people running it with the
env LD_PRELOAD= if they have a problem with loading the appimage?


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