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How to install digiKam 2.0 beta 5 in Ubuntu & Kubuntu 11.04

by Mohamed Malik

If you are using ubuntu 11.04 and if you are eager to test the upcoming digiKam 2.0 beta releases then you should use Philip Johnson's PPA to install the latest beta of digiKam 2.0.( Continue to read...)

beta 5

I just installed beta 5 from Philip Johnson's PPA and it won't launch. I get this message:

QSqlDatabasePrivate::removeDatabase: connection 'ConnectionTest' is still in use, all queries will cease to work.
digikam: symbol lookup error: digikam: undefined symbol: _ZN11KDcrawIface12RExpanderBox12readSettingsER12KConfigGroup

Any idea why?

jack

libkdcraw

Check your libkdcraw install. there is a binary uncompatibility. Probably the package is not updated...

digiKam

beta 5

Nevermind. Uninstalled and reinstalled and it works fine now.

Great

There are really great improvements. Usually I do not use thrid party ppas, but Digikam 2 is worth it.
Face recognition is an amazing feature. The detection works very good, the recognition not so much.

debian

and how I install digikam 2 in debian? compilation from source fail :(

I've installed on 11.04, and

I've installed on 11.04, and found it slow, prone to crash and suffering from several othre bugs. The face recognition works to the extent that faces are detected, but it hasn't put a name to a single one when given some training data. Maybe it works better on KDE than Unity.

If you are using ubuntu 11.04

If you are using ubuntu 11.04 and if you are eager to test the upcoming digiKam
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