difference between 64 and 32 bit kubuntu for digikam

[Errol Sapir]

I use Kubuntu on 2 computers. They are almost identical computers from a
point of view of hardware. They are both AMD64 CPU's. Both have Kubuntu
11.04 installed and I run Digikam on both computers. The photos are
different and therefore different databases. At home I have thousands of
photos while at work only a few hundred.The only major difference
between the computers is that at work I have the 32bit Kubuntu installed
and at home the 64 bit.
Now for the problem. I was using Digikam 1.9 on both computers. With the
aid of Philip Johnsson's ppa I upgraded both computers to Digikam 2.
That's when the problems started. At work everything works ok. There is
no problem. At home I have had several problems and at the moment I have
resorted to using Digikam 1.9 again. I will try to describe the problems
as they happened and hopefully from the description I hope somebody can
help me upgrade and use Digikam 2.
After upgrading the first problem was with Showfoto2 which wouldn't open
folders. I sent a bugfile to Bugzilla as requested and I think the
problem has been solved. The next problem I posted in this forum.
Digikam2 "couldn't read my database". After help from Rinus and others I
came to the decision to go back to Digikam1.9. That was a few weeks ago.
My database was read by that version.
Recently I decided to give Digikam 2 another try. This time I have a
phenomena that I can't define as there is no notification. What happens
is that the Digikam 2 flashscreen appears for a few seconds and then
closes. Nothing follows that flashscreen. No notice, no Digikam,
nothing. It is though I haven't attempted to open a program. I can
continue to work on my computer as though nothing is wrong. In other
words Digikam doesn't freeze or disable my computer in any way. My only
solution is to go back to Digikam 1.9.
As the title of the thread suggests my (probably incorrect) conclusion
is that there is a difference between Digikam for the 32 bit Kubuntu and
the 64 bit. Is this the course to pursue?
I hope my explanation is sufficient for somebody to help me upgrade.
TIA
Errol
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[Rinus]

Hi Errol,
There is a fair chance that I am not capable enough to help but my first
idea:
You might get some useful information when you start digikam from
console and have a look what comes along there during the starting proces.

Rinus

> I use Kubuntu on 2 computers. They are almost identical computers from a
> point of view of hardware. They are both AMD64 CPU's. Both have Kubuntu
> 11.04 installed and I run Digikam on both computers. The photos are
> different and therefore different databases. At home I have thousands of
> photos while at work only a few hundred.The only major difference
> between the computers is that at work I have the 32bit Kubuntu installed
> and at home the 64 bit.
> Now for the problem. I was using Digikam 1.9 on both computers. With the
> aid of Philip Johnsson's ppa I upgraded both computers to Digikam 2.
> That's when the problems started. At work everything works ok. There is
> no problem. At home I have had several problems and at the moment I have
> resorted to using Digikam 1.9 again. I will try to describe the problems
> as they happened and hopefully from the description I hope somebody can
> help me upgrade and use Digikam 2.
> After upgrading the first problem was with Showfoto2 which wouldn't open
> folders. I sent a bugfile to Bugzilla as requested and I think the
> problem has been solved. The next problem I posted in this forum.
> Digikam2 "couldn't read my database". After help from Rinus and others I
> came to the decision to go back to Digikam1.9. That was a few weeks ago.
> My database was read by that version.
> Recently I decided to give Digikam 2 another try. This time I have a
> phenomena that I can't define as there is no notification. What happens
> is that the Digikam 2 flashscreen appears for a few seconds and then
> closes. Nothing follows that flashscreen. No notice, no Digikam,
> nothing. It is though I haven't attempted to open a program. I can
> continue to work on my computer as though nothing is wrong. In other
> words Digikam doesn't freeze or disable my computer in any way. My only
> solution is to go back to Digikam 1.9.
> As the title of the thread suggests my (probably incorrect) conclusion
> is that there is a difference between Digikam for the 32 bit Kubuntu and
> the 64 bit. Is this the course to pursue?
> I hope my explanation is sufficient for somebody to help me upgrade.
> TIA
> Errol
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> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users
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[Philip Johnsson]

On the computer that won't start Digikam 2.0 at all, what happen if
you try to start it from command line in a shell? Just open a
shell/terminal and type digikam and hit enter. That would give you
some kind of error message in the terminal if it doesn't start and/or
shut down.

If you use Ubuntu 11.04 and that one crashed could you look in
kpackagekit for the packages libkdcraw-20, libkexiv2-10, libkface-1
and libkmap-1. Make sure that the package full version name in those
packages have the name natty in it and not maverick (if you use natty
that is). People who have upgraded from ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) to
11.04 (natty) (not making a new clean natty installation) can have
upgrading issues with those packages due to a version naming problem I
had. In that case those packages above need to be uninstalled and
maybe also cleaned from apt cache before reinstall Digikam 2.0 again.

Hope that helps out with this problem you have.

/Philip


On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Errol Sapir <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I use Kubuntu on 2 computers. They are almost identical computers from a
> point of view of hardware. They are both AMD64 CPU's. Both have Kubuntu
> 11.04 installed and I run Digikam on both computers. The photos are
> different and therefore different databases. At home I have thousands of
> photos while at work only a few hundred.The only major difference
> between the computers is that at work I have the 32bit Kubuntu installed
> and at home the 64 bit.
> Now for the problem. I was using Digikam 1.9 on both computers. With the
> aid of Philip Johnsson's ppa I upgraded both computers to Digikam 2.
> That's when the problems started. At work everything works ok. There is
> no problem. At home I have had several problems and at the moment I have
> resorted to using Digikam 1.9 again. I will try to describe the problems
> as they happened and hopefully from the description I hope somebody can
> help me upgrade and use Digikam 2.
> After upgrading the first problem was with Showfoto2 which wouldn't open
> folders. I sent a bugfile to Bugzilla as requested and I think the
> problem has been solved. The next problem I posted in this forum.
> Digikam2 "couldn't read my database". After help from Rinus and others I
> came to the decision to go back to Digikam1.9. That was a few weeks ago.
> My database was read by that version.
> Recently I decided to give Digikam 2 another try. This time I have a
> phenomena that I can't define as there is no notification. What happens
> is that the Digikam 2 flashscreen appears for a few seconds and then
> closes. Nothing follows that flashscreen. No notice, no Digikam,
> nothing. It is though I haven't attempted to open a program. I can
> continue to work on my computer as though nothing is wrong. In other
> words Digikam doesn't freeze or disable my computer in any way. My only
> solution is to go back to Digikam 1.9.
> As the title of the thread suggests my (probably incorrect) conclusion
> is that there is a difference between Digikam for the 32 bit Kubuntu and
> the 64 bit. Is this the course to pursue?
> I hope my explanation is sufficient for somebody to help me upgrade.
> TIA
> Errol
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[Errol Sapir]

Thanks to Rinus and Philip for your quick replies. Philip your mention
of Maverick being "somewhere" rings a bell. At work I installed a new
version of Kubuntu (not Ubuntu on both machines) from scratch  but at
home I upgraded. When I get home I will look into the 4 packages you
suggested, as I am at work now. I will of course report back here.

Errol

On 05/26/2011 02:39 PM, Philip Johnsson wrote:

> On the computer that won't start Digikam 2.0 at all, what happen if
> you try to start it from command line in a shell? Just open a
> shell/terminal and type digikam and hit enter. That would give you
> some kind of error message in the terminal if it doesn't start and/or
> shut down.
>
> If you use Ubuntu 11.04 and that one crashed could you look in
> kpackagekit for the packages libkdcraw-20, libkexiv2-10, libkface-1
> and libkmap-1. Make sure that the package full version name in those
> packages have the name natty in it and not maverick (if you use natty
> that is). People who have upgraded from ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) to
> 11.04 (natty) (not making a new clean natty installation) can have
> upgrading issues with those packages due to a version naming problem I
> had. In that case those packages above need to be uninstalled and
> maybe also cleaned from apt cache before reinstall Digikam 2.0 again.
>
> Hope that helps out with this problem you have.
>
> /Philip
>
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Errol Sapir<[hidden email]>  wrote:
>> I use Kubuntu on 2 computers. They are almost identical computers from a
>> point of view of hardware. They are both AMD64 CPU's. Both have Kubuntu
>> 11.04 installed and I run Digikam on both computers. The photos are
>> different and therefore different databases. At home I have thousands of
>> photos while at work only a few hundred.The only major difference
>> between the computers is that at work I have the 32bit Kubuntu installed
>> and at home the 64 bit.
>> Now for the problem. I was using Digikam 1.9 on both computers. With the
>> aid of Philip Johnsson's ppa I upgraded both computers to Digikam 2.
>> That's when the problems started. At work everything works ok. There is
>> no problem. At home I have had several problems and at the moment I have
>> resorted to using Digikam 1.9 again. I will try to describe the problems
>> as they happened and hopefully from the description I hope somebody can
>> help me upgrade and use Digikam 2.
>> After upgrading the first problem was with Showfoto2 which wouldn't open
>> folders. I sent a bugfile to Bugzilla as requested and I think the
>> problem has been solved. The next problem I posted in this forum.
>> Digikam2 "couldn't read my database". After help from Rinus and others I
>> came to the decision to go back to Digikam1.9. That was a few weeks ago.
>> My database was read by that version.
>> Recently I decided to give Digikam 2 another try. This time I have a
>> phenomena that I can't define as there is no notification. What happens
>> is that the Digikam 2 flashscreen appears for a few seconds and then
>> closes. Nothing follows that flashscreen. No notice, no Digikam,
>> nothing. It is though I haven't attempted to open a program. I can
>> continue to work on my computer as though nothing is wrong. In other
>> words Digikam doesn't freeze or disable my computer in any way. My only
>> solution is to go back to Digikam 1.9.
>> As the title of the thread suggests my (probably incorrect) conclusion
>> is that there is a difference between Digikam for the 32 bit Kubuntu and
>> the 64 bit. Is this the course to pursue?
>> I hope my explanation is sufficient for somebody to help me upgrade.
>> TIA
>> Errol
>> _______________________________________________
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>> [hidden email]
>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users
>>
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[Errol Sapir]

Philip you hit the nail on the head. I removed the four files you listed
while still having digikam 1.9 on my computer at home. I then installed
Digikam2 and everything is now working great.
Thanks for your aid!!
Errol

On 05/26/2011 02:39 PM, Philip Johnsson wrote:

> On the computer that won't start Digikam 2.0 at all, what happen if
> you try to start it from command line in a shell? Just open a
> shell/terminal and type digikam and hit enter. That would give you
> some kind of error message in the terminal if it doesn't start and/or
> shut down.
>
> If you use Ubuntu 11.04 and that one crashed could you look in
> kpackagekit for the packages libkdcraw-20, libkexiv2-10, libkface-1
> and libkmap-1. Make sure that the package full version name in those
> packages have the name natty in it and not maverick (if you use natty
> that is). People who have upgraded from ubuntu 10.10 (maverick) to
> 11.04 (natty) (not making a new clean natty installation) can have
> upgrading issues with those packages due to a version naming problem I
> had. In that case those packages above need to be uninstalled and
> maybe also cleaned from apt cache before reinstall Digikam 2.0 again.
>
> Hope that helps out with this problem you have.
>
> /Philip
>
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Errol Sapir<[hidden email]>  wrote:
>> I use Kubuntu on 2 computers. They are almost identical computers from a
>> point of view of hardware. They are both AMD64 CPU's. Both have Kubuntu
>> 11.04 installed and I run Digikam on both computers. The photos are
>> different and therefore different databases. At home I have thousands of
>> photos while at work only a few hundred.The only major difference
>> between the computers is that at work I have the 32bit Kubuntu installed
>> and at home the 64 bit.
>> Now for the problem. I was using Digikam 1.9 on both computers. With the
>> aid of Philip Johnsson's ppa I upgraded both computers to Digikam 2.
>> That's when the problems started. At work everything works ok. There is
>> no problem. At home I have had several problems and at the moment I have
>> resorted to using Digikam 1.9 again. I will try to describe the problems
>> as they happened and hopefully from the description I hope somebody can
>> help me upgrade and use Digikam 2.
>> After upgrading the first problem was with Showfoto2 which wouldn't open
>> folders. I sent a bugfile to Bugzilla as requested and I think the
>> problem has been solved. The next problem I posted in this forum.
>> Digikam2 "couldn't read my database". After help from Rinus and others I
>> came to the decision to go back to Digikam1.9. That was a few weeks ago.
>> My database was read by that version.
>> Recently I decided to give Digikam 2 another try. This time I have a
>> phenomena that I can't define as there is no notification. What happens
>> is that the Digikam 2 flashscreen appears for a few seconds and then
>> closes. Nothing follows that flashscreen. No notice, no Digikam,
>> nothing. It is though I haven't attempted to open a program. I can
>> continue to work on my computer as though nothing is wrong. In other
>> words Digikam doesn't freeze or disable my computer in any way. My only
>> solution is to go back to Digikam 1.9.
>> As the title of the thread suggests my (probably incorrect) conclusion
>> is that there is a difference between Digikam for the 32 bit Kubuntu and
>> the 64 bit. Is this the course to pursue?
>> I hope my explanation is sufficient for somebody to help me upgrade.
>> TIA
>> Errol
>> _______________________________________________
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>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users
>>
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