[digiKam-users] Digikam 6 appimage on Fedora 29 -- facing still problems

[Stuart Rogers]

I had this issue with two openSUSE Tumbleweed systems until I updated libfontconfig to the latest level and did a reboot of the system. Once done appimage loaded fine.

Stuart

On 1 March 2019 07:34:26 GMT, Kai Blauberg <kai.blauberg at kolumbus.fi> wrote:
>Hi,
>Negative. Using the setting:
>"export LD_PRELOAD=$LD_PRELOAD:/usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1"
>because in /usr/lib64:
>"[ lib64]$ ls -alF libfontconfig.*lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     23  7.11.
>09:45
>libfontconfig.so.1 -> libfontconfig.so.1.12.0*-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root
>294496  7.11. 09:45
>libfontconfig.so.1.12.0*"
>get the error message:
>"[ Digikam]$ ./digikam-6.1.0-git-20190228T085259-x86-64.appimage
>libfreetype.solibudev.so--
>digiKam AppImage Bundle-- Use 'help' as CLI argument to know all
>available options for digiKam
>application-- Preloading shared libs:
>:/usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1digikam: symbol lookup
>error: /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Done_MM_Var"
>Regards,
>Kai
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>appimage on Fedora 29 -- facing still problemsPäiväys: Fri, 1 Mar 2019
>03:20:51 +0100
>Hi,
>
>From a console, if you run "export
>LD_PRELOAD=$LD_PRELOAD:/usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so" before
>to start the AppImage, it do not fix the problem ?
>Best
>
>Gilles Caulier
>Le jeu. 28 févr. 2019 à 22:57, Kai Blauberg <kai.blauberg at kolumbus.fi>
>a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> First of all a big hand for everybody for new version of Digikam 6.0.
>
>> The bad message is that I still face problems with the appimage on my
>Fedora 29 environment.
>> [ Digikam]$ uname -aLinux localhost.localdomain
>4.20.11-200.fc29.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 20
>> 15:56:08 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>> [ Digikam]$ ./digikam-6.1.0-git-20190228T085259-x86-64.appimage
>libfreetype.solibudev.so--
>> digiKam AppImage Bundle-- Use 'help' as CLI argument to know all
>available options for
>> digiKam application-- Preloading shared libs: digikam: symbol lookup
>error:
>> /lib64/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Done_MM_Var
>> I have been able to get 6.0 running on Fedora 27 which runs on a
>virtualbox guest. 
>> Any suggestions how to get Digikam 6.0 appimage up and running on
>Fedora 29? 
>> Cheers and thanks!
>> Kai

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