Please update to digiKam 6.0

Wolfgang Bauer (wolfi323) - over 5 years ago

It's on the way: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/679901

And JFYI: it's not always easy to do such a major version upgrade.
In this particular case, digikam 6.0 doesn't contain kipi-plugins anymore, but that's still used by other applications (spectacle, gwenview, kphotoalbum).
So we had to create a stand-alone kipi-plugins package first, and that had to go through legal review first where it was stuck for 11 days...

Today I tried to install digikam using zypper, but was surprised to find that it requires libKF5AkonadiContact5 (libKF5AkonadiContact.so.5), by requiring libdigikamcore6 (libdigikamcore.so.6.1.0).

After I told zypper to break the dependency on akonadi contact and installed digikam, it won't start, complaining "digikam: error while loading shared libraries: libKF5AkonadiContact.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".

It seems not reasonable that digikam as a photo management software should "require" akonadi contact. Is it possible to make akonadi contact only a "recommend" or "suggest" of digikam?

Christophe Giboudeaux (cgiboudeaux) - over 5 years ago

Is it possible to make akonadi contact only a "recommend" or "suggest" of digikam?

No.

Fabian Vogt (Vogtinator) - over 5 years ago

You need to raise that with the digikam authors. Currently if akonadi integration is enabled during buildtime, it's a hard runtime requirement as well.

Currently broken with openSUSE TW update. digikam: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libdigikamgui.so.7.2.0: undefined symbol: _ZN2cv3dnn14dnn4_v202011173NetC1Ev

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Christophe Giboudeaux (cgiboudeaux) - over 2 years ago

Please read https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/openSUSE:Factory#comment-1392411

Please, change dependency (of libdigikamcore8) from libKF5AkonadiContact to libKPim5AkonadiContact so digikam can be installed on systems with up-to-date kde. It should work fine with libKPim5AkonadiContact as authors said that for time being there will be backwards compatibility for libKPim5AkonadiContact so programs which need libKF5AkonadiContact would work fine with libKPim5AkonadiContact. Tested it with "sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libKPim5AkonadiContact.so.5 /usr/lib64/libKF5AkonadiContact.so.5", digikam works fine.

since Sun Dec 3, 2023 version has been published 8.2. Please supply this version.

Laubblaeser (lbblsr) - 10 months ago

Yes, please! Is there something lacking in the specifications for automatic building of the newer versions? (I have no experience with OBS, sorry.)

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Wolfgang Bauer (wolfi323) - 10 months ago

I've submitted the update: SR#1138994

There is no "automatic building of the newer versions" at all. The package has to be updated manually to build a newer version...