[digiKam-users] Installing digiKam on Linux Mint 19.2

[Mick Sulley]

I have been running Digikam appimage on Mint for a while now. You can 
store it wherever you like, but this is what I do.

Create a directory under my home directory called .digikam and store the 
appimage in there, and also future versions as they are released.  
Remember to modify properties and set the permission to Execute.

Create a menu entry for it in the Graphics group.  This is not obvious 
if you don't know -

  * Open the System Settings (spanner & screwdriver icon in the main menu
  * Click on Preferences > Applets (takes a second or two to open
  * Scroll down to Menu and click the gears symbol on the right
  * The Menu box opens, select the Menu tab at the top
  * Click 'Open the menu editor' middle of screen
  * Now select where to put it, I select Graphics on the left then click
    'New Item'
  * In the Launcher Properties screen give it a name e.g. DigiKam6.3
  * For Command use Browse to select the appimage file you have saved.
  * Comment is optional.
  * To set an icon click on the rocket symbol on the left and select
    your preferred icon.  The download doesn't come with one but you can
    download one from here
    https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/7085/digikam_icon and save it to
    your .digikam directory, or just use the default.
  * Close all the windows you have opened
  * You should now have DigiKam in your menu under Graphics

Alternatively you can right click on the desktop and select 'create a 
launcher here' and just do the bottom half of the list.

Hope that helps

Mick

On 06/11/2019 12:51, Barry Robinson wrote:
> Thanks for the response and good suggestion. I'm such a newbie I had 
> to google AppImage! So I did download digiKam's AppImage, figured out 
> how to make it executable, and it works, right out of the download 
> folder. It doesn't seem right to leave it there so can someone suggest 
> a spot in the file structure of Linux where it makes sense to launch 
> an executable? Also, how do I create an icon to launch it from?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Nov 5, 2019, at 8:10 PM, Mica Semrick <mica at silentumbrella.com 
> <mailto:mica at silentumbrella.com>> wrote:
>
>> It does not look like the snap is running well, but I don't use it so 
>> I can't know for sure.
>>
>> I'd try the official AppImage, which is available for download on the 
>> website.
>>
>> -m
>>
>> On November 5, 2019 4:47:55 PM PST, Barry Robinson 
>> <robinsonbarry at hotmail.com <mailto:robinsonbarry at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I installed digikam on LM 19.2 using the software manager which
>>     only has 5.6.0 available and the only option I could find to load
>>     6.3.0 is to use snapd.  To avoid conflict with 2 versions at the
>>     same time, I first removed 5.6.0 using the software manager. 
>>     Then, using the snap-store, installed 6.3.0. But when I launch
>>     digiKam, I get the following:
>>
>>     :~$ snap run digikam
>>
>>     cp: cannot stat '/snap/digikam/4/kf5/usr/share/mime': No such
>>     file or directory
>>
>>     Directory
>>     '/home/robinson/snap/digikam/4/.local/share/mime/packages' does
>>     not exist!
>>
>>     ERROR: update-mime-database
>>     /home/robinson/snap/digikam/4/.local/share/mime exited abnormally
>>     with status 1
>>
>>     /snap/digikam/4/usr/bin/digikam: error while loading shared
>>     libraries: libQt5Sql.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No
>>     such file or directory
>>
>>
>>     Then next attemp:
>>
>>
>>     :~$ snap run digikam
>>
>>     /snap/digikam/4/usr/bin/digikam: error while loading shared
>>     libraries: libQt5Sql.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No
>>     such file or directory
>>
>>     :~$
>>
>>
>>     Any suggestions?
>>
>>     I'm fairly new with Linux so I'll need instructions with details.
>>
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