Fwd: map view missing from digikam in Ubuntu 16.04

[M. Fioretti]

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Subject: map view missing from digikam in Ubuntu 16.04
Date: 2017-12-09 19:51
 From: "M. Fioretti" <[hidden email]>
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Greetings,

I have digiKam 4.12.0 and the corresponding kipi plugins installed via
apt-get on an Ubuntu 16.04 x86_64 box. Everything works fine except, as
I only realized today, there is NO map view button in the left sidebar.
When I realized this, I also discovered that there is no
geolocation/geotagging entry anywhere in the menus.

Is anybody experiencing the same thing? Any idea of what may be
the reason, and how to fix it?

TIA,
Marco

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Hi,

digiKam 4.12.0 is REALLY old now. I remember that previously, official package drop marble support for obscur reasons. This imply the non availability of geolocation support.

In all case, please use the Linux universal AppImage instead the official package. The current 5.8.0 pre release bundle can be download here :

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

Best

Gilles Caulier

2017-12-09 20:03 GMT+01:00 M. Fioretti <[hidden email]>:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: map view missing from digikam in Ubuntu 16.04
Date: 2017-12-09 19:51
From: "M. Fioretti" <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Reply-To: [hidden email]

Greetings,

I have digiKam 4.12.0 and the corresponding kipi plugins installed via apt-get on an Ubuntu 16.04 x86_64 box. Everything works fine except, as I only realized today, there is NO map view button in the left sidebar. When I realized this, I also discovered that there is no geolocation/geotagging entry anywhere in the menus.

Is anybody experiencing the same thing? Any idea of what may be
the reason, and how to fix it?

TIA,
Marco

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http://mfioretti.com

[M. Fioretti]

On 2017-12-09 20:08, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> digiKam 4.12.0 is REALLY old now. I remember that previously, official
> package drop marble support for obscur reasons. This imply the non
> availability of geolocation support.
>
> In all case, please use the Linux universal AppImage instead the
> official package.

Thanks. I have installed 5.7 appimage as described here:

http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2017/06/digikam-5-6-0-released-how-to-install-it-in-ubuntu/

and indeed map view works in that version. ONLY problem so far is that I
cannot easily select a rectangular area to find which pictures belong to
it. 2 times out of 3, when I drag the cursor to do that, what I get is
that the whole google map is dragged by the cursor.

Marco.
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