Digicam core dumps on start (Ubuntu 22.04)

[Stuart T Rogers]

Apology that should have said 8.4 (not 8.8!) My bad

Stuart

On 02/08/2024 12:12, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> On vendredi 2 août 2024 12:01:40 CEST Geoff Browne wrote:
>> I have been using dk for a year or two.  After a break of several months it
>> no longer runs. executable is digiKam-8.4.0-Qt6-x86-64.appimage
>> I get the messages below and a coredump.
>>
>> Googling suggests there may be a problem with dk not working with Wayland,
>> but I am not experienced enough to know how to fix it. Grateful for any
>> help
> 
> If digikam isn't made to work with wayland, it's possible there's nothing you
> can do to make it work...
> 
> But you have messages about two missing components.
> 
> Is your system using Qt version 6? If not, there should be a Qt5 version of
> the digikam appimage, you may want to try that one.
> 
> Otherwise:
>> Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""
>> unknown: could not connect to display wayland-0
> Do you have the proper libraries installed for Qt6?
> 
>> unknown: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt
> Do you have (lib)xcb-cursor0 installed? ?
> 
>> xcb platform plugin. unknown: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
>> in "" even though it was found. unknown: This application failed to start
>> because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the
>> application may fix this problem.
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