Panorama Creator not working on Linux Mint / Ubuntu

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

Ubuntu has Hugin in standard repo :

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Release:        24.04
Codename:       noble
$ apt search hugin
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
enblend/noble,now 4.2-10build2 arm64 [installed,automatic]
  image blending tool

enfuse/noble,now 4.2-10build2 arm64 [installed,automatic]
  image exposure blending tool

hugin/noble,now 2023.0.0+dfsg-1build4 arm64 [installed]
  panorama photo stitcher - GUI tools

hugin-data/noble,now 2023.0.0+dfsg-1build4 all [installed,automatic]
  panorama photo stitcher - common data files

hugin-tools/noble,now 2023.0.0+dfsg-1build4 arm64 [installed,automatic]
  panorama photo stitcher - commandline tools

Gilles Caulier

Le lun. 6 mai 2024 à 19:17, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> 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
>
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