[digiKam-users] New Linux AppImage 64 bits for digiKam 7.9.0 pre release

[kaizubg at gmail.com]

Hi,

A big thank for your work!

On Fedora 36 I can report the following error:


[kaitfedora digikam]$ ./digiKam-7.9.0-20221107T182907-x86-64.appimage 
-- digiKam Linux AppImage Bundle
-- Use 'help' as CLI argument to know all available options for digiKam
application.
-- Notes: to integrate this bundle to your desktop, use
AppImageLauncher.
--        to enable all debug messages on the console, use 'export
QT_LOGGING_RULES="digikam*=true"'.
-- Detected host Linux -64-
-- AppImage mounted directory: /tmp/.mount_digiKah2h9Zs
Check library libudev.so.0
Check library libxcb-dri3.so.0
Check library libcrypto.so.1.1
Check library libssl.so.1.1
Check library libnss3.so
Check library libnssutil3.so
Check library libsmime3.so
Check library libpango-1.0.so.0
Check library libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
Check library libgmodule-2.0.so.0
-- Preloading shared libs:
:/tmp/.mount_digiKah2h9Zs/usr/lib/libavif.so.13:/usr/lib64/libxcb-
dri3.so.0:/usr/lib64/libnss3.so:/usr/lib64/libnssutil3.so:/usr/lib64/li

bsmime3.so:/usr/lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0:/usr/lib64/libpangocairo-
1.0.so.0:/usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
digikam: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.3: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory

The appimage digiKam-7.9.0-20221030T175249-x86-64.appimage starts
without an issue. I didn't explore yet any workarounds of preloading.

Regards,

Kai




ti, 2022-11-08 kello 13:29 +0100, Gilles Caulier kirjoitti:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just completed the port of the VM used to build the Linux AppImage
> bundles 64 bits from Mageia7 to Ubuntu 18.04. This is a main change
> with these:
> 
> - The binary compatibility with glibc is improved, as Ubuntu 18.04 is
> older than Mageia7. This will guarantee that the AppImage will run
> better with older Linux systems.
> 
> - Ubuntu 18.04 is supported and maintained until 2024. We gain
> security updates of the main component for a while as, for example,
> openssl that is available at the last 1.1.1 compatible with last Qt
> 5.15.7 published as open source. This is important as openssl is used
> to communicate with web service plugins through QtWebEngine. Note
> that
> Mageia7 has been dead for more than one year and you need to upgrade
> the system to Mageia8, so you break again the binary compatibility
> with glibc.
> 
> - I fixed a few bugs in the scripts, which optimize a little bit the
> bundle size and the speed of build.
> 
> - AppImage was the last bundle compiled with Mageia. All is now
> ported
> to Ubuntu, Mageia is not used anymore.
> 
> Voilà, the bundles ready for testing are now published online at
> usual place :
> 
> https://files.kde.org/digikam/
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Gilles Caulier