Problems upgrading DigiKam on Linux Mint

[Kim]

I'm running Linux Mint 17.1 (cinnamon), it has DigiKam 4.0.0 but I've
found it to be very unstable on my laptop and I'm trying to upgrade to a
newer version.  I have Philip's ppa installed both kubunto backports and
extras, however it still wont let me install anything newer then version
4.  Looking at the ppa version 4.7 should be available.
Has anyone had this problem with Mint?  When I'm in the synaptic it
doesn't show that a DigiKam upgrade is available and if I uninstall the
current version and refresh it still only gives me version 4.0 as an
option.
Any ideas how to get an upgraded version?

Thanks,
Kim
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[Mick Sulley]

I am running Mint 17 Cinnamon 64 bit and I have Digikam installed. I
have PPAs -

philip5/kubuntu-backports (Sources)
philip5/kubuntu-backports
philip5/extras (Sources)
philip5/extras

Currently I have DK 4.6 installed, Synaptic shows 4.7 as the latest and
I am about to upgrade to that.

Let me know if there is anything else I can tell you about my system
that may help you.

Mick


On 25/02/15 15:54, Kim wrote:

> I'm running Linux Mint 17.1 (cinnamon), it has DigiKam 4.0.0 but I've
> found it to be very unstable on my laptop and I'm trying to upgrade to
> a newer version.  I have Philip's ppa installed both kubunto backports
> and extras, however it still wont let me install anything newer then
> version 4.  Looking at the ppa version 4.7 should be available.
> Has anyone had this problem with Mint?  When I'm in the synaptic it
> doesn't show that a DigiKam upgrade is available and if I uninstall
> the current version and refresh it still only gives me version 4.0 as
> an option.
> Any ideas how to get an upgraded version?
>
> Thanks,
> Kim
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[Mick Sulley]

OK I have just updated to 4.7, it was not quite straightforward :)

 From past experience if you just select the upgrade you get a message
that DigiKam will be removed.  What I did was to search digikam in
Synaptic and remove all the packages that it finds, 11 packages, disable
the PPAs then run Edit>Fix Broken Packages and reload.  I then enabled
the PPAs and tried installing packages one at a time, running fix broken
and reload after each one, some installed some didn't.  After a lot of
trial and error I fond that disabling the philip5/kubuntu-backports PPAs
allowed me to install and I now have 4.7 up and running with just the
extra PPA enabled.

I don't know why this is so, perhaps if Philip reads this he could
comment, but bottom line DK 4.7 is working for me.

btw are you aware of the memory issue that is still around?  If you do
pretty much anything with face tags the memory usage just grows until
the system crashes.  See

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323888

for details on that.

Cheers
Mick


On 25/02/15 21:41, Mick Sulley wrote:

> I am running Mint 17 Cinnamon 64 bit and I have Digikam installed. I
> have PPAs -
>
> philip5/kubuntu-backports (Sources)
> philip5/kubuntu-backports
> philip5/extras (Sources)
> philip5/extras
>
> Currently I have DK 4.6 installed, Synaptic shows 4.7 as the latest
> and I am about to upgrade to that.
>
> Let me know if there is anything else I can tell you about my system
> that may help you.
>
> Mick
>
>
> On 25/02/15 15:54, Kim wrote:
>> I'm running Linux Mint 17.1 (cinnamon), it has DigiKam 4.0.0 but I've
>> found it to be very unstable on my laptop and I'm trying to upgrade
>> to a newer version.  I have Philip's ppa installed both kubunto
>> backports and extras, however it still wont let me install anything
>> newer then version 4.  Looking at the ppa version 4.7 should be
>> available.
>> Has anyone had this problem with Mint?  When I'm in the synaptic it
>> doesn't show that a DigiKam upgrade is available and if I uninstall
>> the current version and refresh it still only gives me version 4.0 as
>> an option.
>> Any ideas how to get an upgraded version?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kim
>> _______________________________________________
>> Digikam-users mailing list
>> [hidden email]
>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users
>
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[Kim]

Thanks for trying to help Mick!  I tried following what you suggested
and I could get DigiKam 4.7 to install, but when I try to open it it
crashes on the starting splash screen.

This is the terminal display when it happens.

Object::connect: No such signal
org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceAdded(QDBusObjectPath)
Object::connect: No such signal
org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceRemoved(QDBusObjectPath)
digikam(30289) Phonon::KdePlatformPlugin::createBackend: using backend:  
"GStreamer"
digikam: symbol lookup error: digikam: undefined symbol:
_ZNK11KExiv2Iface14AltLangStrEdit8textEditEv

Do you know how to fix it?

Thanks,
Kim

On 15-02-25 05:23 PM, Mick Sulley wrote:

> OK I have just updated to 4.7, it was not quite straightforward :)
>
> From past experience if you just select the upgrade you get a message
> that DigiKam will be removed.  What I did was to search digikam in
> Synaptic and remove all the packages that it finds, 11 packages,
> disable the PPAs then run Edit>Fix Broken Packages and reload.  I then
> enabled the PPAs and tried installing packages one at a time, running
> fix broken and reload after each one, some installed some didn't.  
> After a lot of trial and error I fond that disabling the
> philip5/kubuntu-backports PPAs allowed me to install and I now have
> 4.7 up and running with just the extra PPA enabled.
>
> I don't know why this is so, perhaps if Philip reads this he could
> comment, but bottom line DK 4.7 is working for me.
>
> btw are you aware of the memory issue that is still around?  If you do
> pretty much anything with face tags the memory usage just grows until
> the system crashes.  See
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323888
>
> for details on that.
>
> Cheers
> Mick

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[Mick Sulley]

No, sorry, my methods tend to be trial and error with my fingers crossed
:)  I would try installing the -dev versions of packages that are
involved, I believe these contain the headers that may be needed, but
just guessing.  You could also install digikam-dbg which contains debug
stuff, if you search the forum there are instruction on how to use it.

There are many knowledgeable people on this forum, hopefully someone
will point you in the right direction.

Cheers
Mick

On 25/02/15 23:48, Kim wrote:

> Thanks for trying to help Mick!  I tried following what you suggested
> and I could get DigiKam 4.7 to install, but when I try to open it it
> crashes on the starting splash screen.
>
> This is the terminal display when it happens.
>
> Object::connect: No such signal
> org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceAdded(QDBusObjectPath)
> Object::connect: No such signal
> org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceRemoved(QDBusObjectPath)
> digikam(30289) Phonon::KdePlatformPlugin::createBackend: using
> backend:  "GStreamer"
> digikam: symbol lookup error: digikam: undefined symbol:
> _ZNK11KExiv2Iface14AltLangStrEdit8textEditEv
>
> Do you know how to fix it?
>
> Thanks,
> Kim
>
> On 15-02-25 05:23 PM, Mick Sulley wrote:
>> OK I have just updated to 4.7, it was not quite straightforward :)
>>
>> From past experience if you just select the upgrade you get a message
>> that DigiKam will be removed.  What I did was to search digikam in
>> Synaptic and remove all the packages that it finds, 11 packages,
>> disable the PPAs then run Edit>Fix Broken Packages and reload.  I
>> then enabled the PPAs and tried installing packages one at a time,
>> running fix broken and reload after each one, some installed some
>> didn't.  After a lot of trial and error I fond that disabling the
>> philip5/kubuntu-backports PPAs allowed me to install and I now have
>> 4.7 up and running with just the extra PPA enabled.
>>
>> I don't know why this is so, perhaps if Philip reads this he could
>> comment, but bottom line DK 4.7 is working for me.
>>
>> btw are you aware of the memory issue that is still around?  If you
>> do pretty much anything with face tags the memory usage just grows
>> until the system crashes.  See
>>
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323888
>>
>> for details on that.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Mick
>
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[Kim]

Thanks Mick, I finally got it working. I found a lot of similar topics
on the Mint forum.  Some found the problem was because Mint put a lower
priority to added ppa's. Once that was changed by this method
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=184279&p=968051#p964281 
synaptic let me upgrade the following list that before it wouldn't or
seemed to keep changing back.


Upgraded the following packages:
libkexiv2-11 (4:4.14.2-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.04~ppa1) to 4:4.14.3-trusty~ppa1
libkexiv2-data (4:4.14.2-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.04~ppa1) to 4:4.14.3-trusty~ppa1
libkexiv2-dev (4:4.14.2-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.04~ppa1) to 4:4.14.3-trusty~ppa1
libkface-data (1.0~digikam4.0.0-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.04~ppa2) to
1.0~digikam4.7.0-trusty~ppa1
libkface2 (1.0~digikam4.0.0-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.04~ppa2) to
1.0~digikam4.4.0-trusty~ppa2
libkgeomap-data (1.0~digikam4.0.0-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.04~ppa2) to
1.0~digikam4.7.0-trusty~ppa1


I don't know if this was the "right" way to fix this but it did work.

Thanks,
Kim

On 15-02-25 07:23 PM, Mick Sulley wrote:
> No, sorry, my methods tend to be trial and error with my fingers
> crossed :)

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[Philip Johnsson]

Kim

First: The "digikam: symbol lookup error: digikam: undefined symbol: _ZNK11KExiv2Iface14AltLangStrEdit8textEditEv" error mean that you don't have the correct updated versions of libkexiv2-11 on your system that digikam and maybe not  libexiv2-13 either. Check that those packages you have installed comes from my PPA as they are updated.

Second: I don't use Linux Mint but isn't Linux Mint 17.1 a LTS release? I think I have read others using that version and that Linux mint have some setting only to use what's considered stable sources. If you run the following command:

apt-cache policy digikam

Then you will get all your avalible sources of digikam and their versions. PPAs are 700 sources but I think Linux Mint LTS only allow to update 500 sources (considered stable source). I have never taken any time to check how you change this on a Linux Mint system (or Debian system) but maybe other Linux Mint users have done this. Otherwise you have to force install each package and that's not that easy as you have to know all the packages needed to update but are held back by Linux Mint LTS.

Regards,

Philip

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Mick Sulley <[hidden email]> wrote:

No, sorry, my methods tend to be trial and error with my fingers crossed :)  I would try installing the -dev versions of packages that are involved, I believe these contain the headers that may be needed, but just guessing.  You could also install digikam-dbg which contains debug stuff, if you search the forum there are instruction on how to use it.

There are many knowledgeable people on this forum, hopefully someone will point you in the right direction.

Cheers
Mick

On 25/02/15 23:48, Kim wrote:

Thanks for trying to help Mick!  I tried following what you suggested and I could get DigiKam 4.7 to install, but when I try to open it it crashes on the starting splash screen.

This is the terminal display when it happens.

Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceAdded(QDBusObjectPath)
Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceRemoved(QDBusObjectPath)
digikam(30289) Phonon::KdePlatformPlugin::createBackend: using backend:  "GStreamer"
digikam: symbol lookup error: digikam: undefined symbol: _ZNK11KExiv2Iface14AltLangStrEdit8textEditEv

Do you know how to fix it?

Thanks,
Kim

On 15-02-25 05:23 PM, Mick Sulley wrote:

OK I have just updated to 4.7, it was not quite straightforward :)

From past experience if you just select the upgrade you get a message that DigiKam will be removed.  What I did was to search digikam in Synaptic and remove all the packages that it finds, 11 packages, disable the PPAs then run Edit>Fix Broken Packages and reload.  I then enabled the PPAs and tried installing packages one at a time, running fix broken and reload after each one, some installed some didn't.  After a lot of trial and error I fond that disabling the philip5/kubuntu-backports PPAs allowed me to install and I now have 4.7 up and running with just the extra PPA enabled.

I don't know why this is so, perhaps if Philip reads this he could comment, but bottom line DK 4.7 is working for me.

btw are you aware of the memory issue that is still around?  If you do pretty much anything with face tags the memory usage just grows until the system crashes.  See

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323888

for details on that.

Cheers
Mick

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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2015-02-26 0:48 GMT+01:00 Kim <[hidden email]>:

> Thanks for trying to help Mick!  I tried following what you suggested and I
> could get DigiKam 4.7 to install, but when I try to open it it crashes on
> the starting splash screen.
>
> This is the terminal display when it happens.
>
> Object::connect: No such signal
> org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceAdded(QDBusObjectPath)
> Object::connect: No such signal
> org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceRemoved(QDBusObjectPath)

These messages do not come from digiKAm but KDELibs. Reproducible on
my computer since a long time. Forget it...


> digikam(30289) Phonon::KdePlatformPlugin::createBackend: using backend:
> "GStreamer"
> digikam: symbol lookup error: digikam: undefined symbol:
> _ZNK11KExiv2Iface14AltLangStrEdit8textEditEv

libkexiv2 binary compatibility issue. typically, your libkexiv2
package is not updated to work with your digiKam. It's a packaging
problem.

Gilles Caulier
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