[digikam] [Bug 491042] MariaDB (MySQL) embedded files missing in fresh install

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

This commit must fix the problem:

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/3512e50b32825205eec25a1e277b0d042b26212c

Next 8.7.0 pre-release build will be done this evening.

Best regards

Gilles Caulier

Le dim. 27 avr. 2025 à 18:05, <skara at gmx.org> a écrit :
>
> >(In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #22)
> >> MariaDB appears to be installed in:
> >>
> >> /Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents/lib/mariadb/bin/mariadbd
> >>
> >> MariaDB appears to be compiled with the version number in the path:
> >>
> >> /Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents//lib/mariadb//lib/mariadb-10.
> >> 11/bin/mariadbd
> >>
> >> Presumably mariaDB uses the path with version number in its own config.
> >> Maybe a symlink will help?
> >>
> >> Maik
> >
> >I just added:
> >>sudo ln  -s "./mariadb" /Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents/lib/mariadb-10.11
> >
> >but it didn't work.  Same error.
>
> macOS 15.4.1, digiKam 8.6.0 arm64 (Build Date: 14.03.25 17:54, official binary from digikam.org)
> Trying to upgrade my sqLite to mysql internal, also after fresh install of digiKam mentioned error:
>
> `FATAL ERROR: Could not find /Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents//lib/mariadb//lib/mariadb-10.11/bin/mariadbd`
>
>
> After reading this thread i tried this and it worked for me.
>
> `cd /Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents/lib/mariadb`
> `sudo ln -s ../mariadb mariadb-10.11`
>
>
> (Not sure wether giving digikam full disk access is needed but i did in the first place.)
>
> It would be great for upgrades having this issue fixed.
>
> Best wishes
> skara