Can't run 7.9 or 7.10 AppImage on Ubuntu Lunar (23.04)

[Henrik Hemrin]

So far,

for what is worth as info, digiKam 7.9 AppImage from an official mirror 
(I have not upgraded to 7.10 yet) has been working as expected on my 
Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon.

Regards

Henrik

Den 2023-03-28 kl. 21:14, skrev Hans-Peter Huth:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:45:35 +0200
> Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> First the digiKam AppImage is compiled under Ubuntu 18.04 for binary
>> compatibility. So, it must be compatible with recent Ubuntu versions,
>> at least at run time.
> Not sure if this relates, but i have issues on Manjaro. I did post this
> before, but here again:
>
> [hph at hackbrett4 Appimg]$ export QT_LOGGING_RULES="digikam*=true"
> [hph at hackbrett4 Appimg]$ ./digiKam-7.10.0-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"'. --        to extract the
> bundle contents locally, use option '--appimage-extract' on the command
> line. -- Detected host Linux manjarolinux-64-22..5 -- AppImage mounted
> directory: /tmp/.mount_digiKamSaEba 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 libgmodule-2.0.so.0
> -- Preloading shared libs:
> :/tmp/.mount_digiKamSaEba/usr/lib/libavif.so.13:/usr/lib64/libxcb-dri3.so.0:/usr/lib64/libnss3.so:/usr/lib64/libnssutil3.so:/usr/lib64/libsmime3.so:/usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
> /tmp/.mount_digiKamSaEba/AppRun: Zeile 203: 16904 Speicherzugriffsfehler
> (Speicherabzug geschrieben) digikam $@
>
>
> Any hints? Same behavior for older 7.10 and 7.9 versions,
> digiKam-7.8.0-20220828T133307-x86-64.appimage and the native Manjaro
> version, 7.9., start and run fine.
>
> HP
>> But don't forget that digiKam relies on Qt which uses a plugin
>> architecture to dialog with the host system, particularly the X11 or
>> Wayland window management. Another problematic component is libopenssl
>> which is constantly updated for the security reasons and breaks the
>> regressive compatibility (probably because the API is not well
>> designed at origin).
>>
>> The X11 compatibility with the Wayland emulation is a problem already
>> seen. AppImage is only compiled for X11 and Wayland must support it as
>> well during the long transition stage on the Linux systems.
>>
>> Don't forget that Ubuntu 23.04 is not yet an LTS release... so take
>> care...
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>> Le mar. 28 mars 2023 à 17:55, Jay
>> <jay at speedpost.net> a écrit :
>>> While not directly related to digiKam, I would like to add that, after
>>> installing Linux Mint 21.1 (based on Ubuntu 22.04), pCloud Appimage
>>> stopped functioning as a drive on my system (and there was not a
>>> libfuse2 issue on my OS). I had to install the Appimage via the command
>>> line and do some other detailed nano steps provided by pCloud for it to
>>> work correctly. Perhaps some issue with Appimages and latest versions
>>> of Ubuntu?
>>>
>>> Jay Rutherford
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 28, 2023, at 09:11, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
>>>
>>> FYI, the issue below is gone in last night's 8.0.0 build AppImage, but
>>> I encountered some other issues with 8.0.0 which I will describe in a
>>> separate thread so as not to clutter things.
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>