Linux Mint install

[Chuck Pergiel]

Used:

sudo  apt-get install digikam

to install digikam on Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa. Started the program and walked through the initial setup, and then nothing.

Start the program again and it pops up the initial splash and then vanishes.

[Gilles Caulier-4]

No idea. Use last DK 5.3.0 AppImage bundle for Linux instead...

https://www.digikam.org/node/761

Gilles Caulier

2016-11-08 13:03 GMT+01:00 Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]>:

Used:

sudo  apt-get install digikam

to install digikam on Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa. Started the program and walked through the initial setup, and then nothing.

Start the program again and it pops up the initial splash and then vanishes.

[Mick Sulley]

I run DigiKam on Mint 18.  The standard install gets you version 4, you can also use PPA philip5/extra to get up to version 5, but as Gilles said you can just download the AppImage bundle, make it executable and double click.  It just works like magic!  I expected to have problems getting it to work but no, it just works.  Plus all the dependencies are included there as well so it really is easy.

Cheers

Mick

On 08/11/16 12:35, Gilles Caulier wrote:

No idea. Use last DK 5.3.0 AppImage bundle for Linux instead...

https://www.digikam.org/node/761

Gilles Caulier

2016-11-08 13:03 GMT+01:00 Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]>:

Used:

sudo  apt-get install digikam

to install digikam on Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa. Started the program and walked through the initial setup, and then nothing.

Start the program again and it pops up the initial splash and then vanishes.

[Chuck Pergiel]

Downloaded the AppImage and tried to run it (double click the file name in the Downloads folder) and nothing happens.

Open a terminal window and try to run it and I get this:

bogwan@bogwan-Z87N-WIFI ~/Downloads $ ls
digikam-5.3.0-01-x86-64.appimage  eclipse-inst-linux64.tar.gz  Other stories  pinta-1.6.tar.gz
eclipse-inst-linux32.tar.gz       go1.6.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz   pinta-1.6
bogwan@bogwan-Z87N-WIFI ~/Downloads $ ./digikam-5.3.0-01-x86-64.appimage
bash: ./digikam-5.3.0-01-x86-64.appimage: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

P.S. My Linux box died a month ago and I only just got it running again. I think it was the power supply. How can that be? Power supplies never fail, do they?

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Mick Sulley <[hidden email]> wrote:

I run DigiKam on Mint 18.  The standard install gets you version 4, you can also use PPA philip5/extra to get up to version 5, but as Gilles said you can just download the AppImage bundle, make it executable and double click.  It just works like magic!  I expected to have problems getting it to work but no, it just works.  Plus all the dependencies are included there as well so it really is easy.

Cheers

Mick

On 08/11/16 12:35, Gilles Caulier wrote:

No idea. Use last DK 5.3.0 AppImage bundle for Linux instead...

https://www.digikam.org/node/761

Gilles Caulier

2016-11-08 13:03 GMT+01:00 Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]>:

Used:

sudo  apt-get install digikam

to install digikam on Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa. Started the program and walked through the initial setup, and then nothing.

Start the program again and it pops up the initial splash and then vanishes.

[Chuck Pergiel]

Just tried 5.4 with the same result.

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]> wrote:

Downloaded the AppImage and tried to run it (double click the file name in the Downloads folder) and nothing happens.

Open a terminal window and try to run it and I get this:

bogwan@bogwan-Z87N-WIFI ~/Downloads $ ls
digikam-5.3.0-01-x86-64.appimage  eclipse-inst-linux64.tar.gz  Other stories  pinta-1.6.tar.gz
eclipse-inst-linux32.tar.gz       go1.6.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz   pinta-1.6
bogwan@bogwan-Z87N-WIFI ~/Downloads $ ./digikam-5.3.0-01-x86-64.appimage
bash: ./digikam-5.3.0-01-x86-64.appimage: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

P.S. My Linux box died a month ago and I only just got it running again. I think it was the power supply. How can that be? Power supplies never fail, do they?

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Mick Sulley <[hidden email]> wrote:

I run DigiKam on Mint 18.  The standard install gets you version 4, you can also use PPA philip5/extra to get up to version 5, but as Gilles said you can just download the AppImage bundle, make it executable and double click.  It just works like magic!  I expected to have problems getting it to work but no, it just works.  Plus all the dependencies are included there as well so it really is easy.

Cheers

Mick

On 08/11/16 12:35, Gilles Caulier wrote:

No idea. Use last DK 5.3.0 AppImage bundle for Linux instead...

https://www.digikam.org/node/761

Gilles Caulier

2016-11-08 13:03 GMT+01:00 Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]>:

Used:

sudo  apt-get install digikam

to install digikam on Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa. Started the program and walked through the initial setup, and then nothing.

Start the program again and it pops up the initial splash and then vanishes.

[Erick Moreno]

Hi Chuck!

This message usually means that you are triyng to run an app compiled to the wrong architecture.

Are you sure you are running a x86-64 SO? Can you show us the result of 'uname -a' command?

The eclipse 32 bits installer was a clue to me.

[]'s

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]> wrote:

Just tried 5.4 with the same result.

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]> wrote:

Downloaded the AppImage and tried to run it (double click the file name in the Downloads folder) and nothing happens.

Open a terminal window and try to run it and I get this:

bogwan@bogwan-Z87N-WIFI ~/Downloads $ ls
digikam-5.3.0-01-x86-64.appimage  eclipse-inst-linux64.tar.gz  Other stories  pinta-1.6.tar.gz
eclipse-inst-linux32.tar.gz       go1.6.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz   pinta-1.6
bogwan@bogwan-Z87N-WIFI ~/Downloads $ ./digikam-5.3.0-01-x86-64.appimage
bash: ./digikam-5.3.0-01-x86-64.appimage: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

P.S. My Linux box died a month ago and I only just got it running again. I think it was the power supply. How can that be? Power supplies never fail, do they?

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Mick Sulley <[hidden email]> wrote:

I run DigiKam on Mint 18.  The standard install gets you version 4, you can also use PPA philip5/extra to get up to version 5, but as Gilles said you can just download the AppImage bundle, make it executable and double click.  It just works like magic!  I expected to have problems getting it to work but no, it just works.  Plus all the dependencies are included there as well so it really is easy.

Cheers

Mick

On 08/11/16 12:35, Gilles Caulier wrote:

No idea. Use last DK 5.3.0 AppImage bundle for Linux instead...

https://www.digikam.org/node/761

Gilles Caulier

2016-11-08 13:03 GMT+01:00 Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]>:

Used:

sudo  apt-get install digikam

to install digikam on Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa. Started the program and walked through the initial setup, and then nothing.

Start the program again and it pops up the initial splash and then vanishes.

--

[Chuck Pergiel]

My Linux box blew up again. Gave up trying to diagnose the problem and ordered new motherboard. Should be here in a week.

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Erick Moreno <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Chuck!

This message usually means that you are triyng to run an app compiled to the wrong architecture.

Are you sure you are running a x86-64 SO? Can you show us the result of 'uname -a' command?

The eclipse 32 bits installer was a clue to me.

[]'s

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]> wrote:

Just tried 5.4 with the same result.

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]> wrote:

Downloaded the AppImage and tried to run it (double click the file name in the Downloads folder) and nothing happens.

Open a terminal window and try to run it and I get this:

bogwan@bogwan-Z87N-WIFI ~/Downloads $ ls
digikam-5.3.0-01-x86-64.appimage  eclipse-inst-linux64.tar.gz  Other stories  pinta-1.6.tar.gz
eclipse-inst-linux32.tar.gz       go1.6.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz   pinta-1.6
bogwan@bogwan-Z87N-WIFI ~/Downloads $ ./digikam-5.3.0-01-x86-64.appimage
bash: ./digikam-5.3.0-01-x86-64.appimage: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

P.S. My Linux box died a month ago and I only just got it running again. I think it was the power supply. How can that be? Power supplies never fail, do they?

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Mick Sulley <[hidden email]> wrote:

I run DigiKam on Mint 18.  The standard install gets you version 4, you can also use PPA philip5/extra to get up to version 5, but as Gilles said you can just download the AppImage bundle, make it executable and double click.  It just works like magic!  I expected to have problems getting it to work but no, it just works.  Plus all the dependencies are included there as well so it really is easy.

Cheers

Mick

On 08/11/16 12:35, Gilles Caulier wrote:

No idea. Use last DK 5.3.0 AppImage bundle for Linux instead...

https://www.digikam.org/node/761

Gilles Caulier

2016-11-08 13:03 GMT+01:00 Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]>:

Used:

sudo  apt-get install digikam

to install digikam on Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa. Started the program and walked through the initial setup, and then nothing.

Start the program again and it pops up the initial splash and then vanishes.

--

[Chuck Pergiel]

Motherboard arrived a week ago and I finally got around to installing it last night. So far, so good.

bogwan@bogwan-Z87N-WIFI ~ $ uname -a
Linux bogwan-Z87N-WIFI 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:30:01 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

Digikam shows up as a graphics application in the (Linux Mint) system Menu. Clicking on it gets me a Configure - digikam / Collections Setting dialog box.

Clicking OK gets me a tiny splash screen that disappears almost instantly. It shows version number 4.0.0

[Gilles Caulier-4]

How Linux distro can package older release from 3 years ago...

The last one is 5.4.0 released few days ago.

Use Universal AppImage Linux bundle instead outdated system based version.

http://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-17 19:35 GMT+01:00 Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]>:

Motherboard arrived a week ago and I finally got around to installing it last night. So far, so good.

bogwan@bogwan-Z87N-WIFI ~ $ uname -a
Linux bogwan-Z87N-WIFI 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:30:01 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

Digikam shows up as a graphics application in the (Linux Mint) system Menu. Clicking on it gets me a Configure - digikam / Collections Setting dialog box.

Clicking OK gets me a tiny splash screen that disappears almost instantly. It shows version number 4.0.0

[Chuck Pergiel]

While I have a 64-bit processor, I didn't have the 64-bit version of the OS. Not sure how that happened, it was a while back.

Anyway, got the 64-bit version of Linux Mint installed, so maybe I'll have better luck with DIgikam now.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> wrote:

How Linux distro can package older release from 3 years ago...

The last one is 5.4.0 released few days ago.

Use Universal AppImage Linux bundle instead outdated system based version.

http://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-17 19:35 GMT+01:00 Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]>:

Motherboard arrived a week ago and I finally got around to installing it last night. So far, so good.

bogwan@bogwan-Z87N-WIFI ~ $ uname -a
Linux bogwan-Z87N-WIFI 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:30:01 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

Digikam shows up as a graphics application in the (Linux Mint) system Menu. Clicking on it gets me a Configure - digikam / Collections Setting dialog box.

Clicking OK gets me a tiny splash screen that disappears almost instantly. It shows version number 4.0.0

[Chuck Pergiel]

Yes, now that I have a 64-bit OS, Digikam installs and runs.

The Tool Tips are almost illegible: white text on a yellow-ish backrgound. Found the place where you can configure tool tips and it mentions the font, but there doesn't seem to be anyway to actually change it.

Tried the digiKam hanbook, but it tells me 

Could not launch the KDE Help Center:

Could not find service 'khelpcenter'.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 3:47 AM, Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]> wrote:

While I have a 64-bit processor, I didn't have the 64-bit version of the OS. Not sure how that happened, it was a while back.

Anyway, got the 64-bit version of Linux Mint installed, so maybe I'll have better luck with DIgikam now.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> wrote:

How Linux distro can package older release from 3 years ago...

The last one is 5.4.0 released few days ago.

Use Universal AppImage Linux bundle instead outdated system based version.

http://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-17 19:35 GMT+01:00 Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]>:

Motherboard arrived a week ago and I finally got around to installing it last night. So far, so good.

bogwan@bogwan-Z87N-WIFI ~ $ uname -a
Linux bogwan-Z87N-WIFI 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:30:01 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

Digikam shows up as a graphics application in the (Linux Mint) system Menu. Clicking on it gets me a Configure - digikam / Collections Setting dialog box.

Clicking OK gets me a tiny splash screen that disappears almost instantly. It shows version number 4.0.0

[Philip Johnsson]

install the khelpcenter package.

/Philip

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]> wrote:

Yes, now that I have a 64-bit OS, Digikam installs and runs.

The Tool Tips are almost illegible: white text on a yellow-ish backrgound. Found the place where you can configure tool tips and it mentions the font, but there doesn't seem to be anyway to actually change it.

Tried the digiKam hanbook, but it tells me 

Could not launch the KDE Help Center:

Could not find service 'khelpcenter'.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 3:47 AM, Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]> wrote:

While I have a 64-bit processor, I didn't have the 64-bit version of the OS. Not sure how that happened, it was a while back.

Anyway, got the 64-bit version of Linux Mint installed, so maybe I'll have better luck with DIgikam now.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> wrote:

How Linux distro can package older release from 3 years ago...

The last one is 5.4.0 released few days ago.

Use Universal AppImage Linux bundle instead outdated system based version.

http://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/

Gilles Caulier

2017-01-17 19:35 GMT+01:00 Chuck Pergiel <[hidden email]>:

Motherboard arrived a week ago and I finally got around to installing it last night. So far, so good.

bogwan@bogwan-Z87N-WIFI ~ $ uname -a
Linux bogwan-Z87N-WIFI 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:30:01 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

Digikam shows up as a graphics application in the (Linux Mint) system Menu. Clicking on it gets me a Configure - digikam / Collections Setting dialog box.

Clicking OK gets me a tiny splash screen that disappears almost instantly. It shows version number 4.0.0