Not able to start digikam on Mac Mini M4 Pro

[Fred Engst]

Dear digikam team,
I have just purchased a Mac Mini M4 Pro and download all file that are
needed for digikam, but I’m not able to start it.

Here is the error I get using digitkam 8.5.0 at startup:
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An error occurred during the internal server start.
Details: Could not start database initializer.
Executable: /Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents/lib/mariadb/
bin/mariadb-install-db
Arguments: --defaults-file=/Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf,
--basedir=/ Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents//lib/mariadb/,
--datadir=/Users/chief/Pictures/.mysql.digikam/db_data
Process error: Unknown error
Please check the database settings in this dialog.
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I then successively installing mariadb 11.7.2 with my admin account
(chief), and here is the log:
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Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 75
Server version: 11.7.2-MariaDB Homebrew

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input
statement.

MariaDB [(none)]> quit
Bye
chief at 192 ~ % MySQL.server start
Starting MariaDB
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/mariadb/11.7.2/bin/mysqld_safe: Deprecated program
name. It will be removed in a future release, use 'mariadbd-safe' instead
250308 08:34:43 mysqld_safe Logging to
'/opt/homebrew/var/mysql/192.168.0.109.err'.
SUCCESS!  chief at 192 ~ % 250308 08:34:43 mysqld_safe Starting mariadbd
daemon with databases from /opt/homebrew/var/mysql
chief at 192 ~ %
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I then downloaded digikam 8.6.0, and here is the error I get:
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An error occurred during the internal server start.
Details: Could not start database initializer.
Executable: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/mariadb/11.7.2/scripts/mariadb-install-db
Arguments: --defaults-file=/Applications/digiKam-8.6.org/
<http://digikam-8.6.org/>
digikam.app/Contents/Resources/digikam/database/mysql-global.conf,
--basedir= Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/
Contents//lib/mariadb/, --datadir=/Users/chief/
Pictures/.mysql.digikam/db_data
Process error: Unknown error
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