[digiKam-users] Help getting digiKam to load

[Garth Kay-Hards]

Hi Gilles.
Can you please outline what I need to do.  I guess I must 1st get Yast to
uninstall the package.
 I'll follow what procedure you give me
Regards
Garth

On Wed, 30 May 2018 2:38 pm Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can you reproduce the problem using the digiKam Linux AppImage bundle,
> which contains all the necessary dependencies to run without to use the
> system library. This can identify a packaging problem with your system.
>
> Else, a console trace at digiKam startup can help to identify the source
> of the problem.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2018-05-30 2:05 GMT+02:00 Garth Kay-Hards <garthandjen at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I have a 64bit machine and use OpenSuse with Gnome and have used digiKam
>> a lot in past versions of my OS, but since I went onto OpenSuse Leap 41.3 I
>> could not get digiKam to load the database and my photos. I gave up for
>> some time and used the Windows version (which I don't like as much as it
>> doesn't handle batch resizing like the Linux version).
>>
>> I thought I'd just wait till the new release of Leap 15.0 was out and
>> reload it then.  Well I have a brand new install of Leap 15.0 and I
>> installed digiKam without any problems. It installed as normal which
>> includes installing a whole heap of KDE software. But when I try to load
>> the program it gets to the point of trying to load the database and hangs
>> up with the message - "Error while opening the database. digiKam will try
>> to automatically reconnect to the database." It just stops there.
>>
>> I thought perhaps SQlite hadn't been loaded and went to the Software
>> manager where I saw that libsqlite3-0 was installed. I scrolled down and
>> installed sqlite3 to see if it would help, but no it didn't.
>>
>> I need someone's help please as I really love this photo editor.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Garth
>>
>>
>
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