Panorama Creator not working on Linux Mint / Ubuntu

[Maik Qualmann]

Read my comment from this bug report. It contains a link to a PPA for Hugin.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453817#c2

Maik

Am Sonntag, 5. Mai 2024, 20:17:59 MESZ schrieb Jan Sende:
> Hey,
> I just downloaded the newest version of digiKam (8.3.0) and played
> around with the new functions. When doing so, I found the Panorama
> Creator button that I never noticed before and wanted to try it.
> (Looking at the release notes, I know that this is actually a kind of
> an old function, but anyways...)
> 
> When clicking on the Panorama Creator I got the following screen
> complaining about missing binaries.
> 
> 
> I am currently running Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon, which is based on
> Ubuntu 22.04; and I am using the AppImage version of digiKam. The issue
> seems to be that digiKam expect Hugin binary files to be present on my
> machine. However, Ubuntu seems to have dropped Hugin from their binary
> repos after version 21.10, meaning I cannot even install it. The
> currently preferred way to get Hugin seems to be AppImage or FlatPak
> instead. (https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Hugin/)
> 
> In any case, I would expect the digiKam AppImage not to rely on system
> specific packages as system independence is the whole reason to use
> AppImage in the first place...
> 
> Could you please have a look on how to get the Panorama Creator working
> again for everyone? Maybe a download function like for the deep
> learning tools is the solution?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Jan Sende