digikam fails to start on Kubuntu Wily

[Rob A]

I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I screwed up something....

I get this if I try to start digikam from the command line in a fresh install of Kubuntu Wily:

digikam: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkexiv2.so.11: undefined symbol: _ZN5Exiv213XmpProperties10registerNsERKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEES8_

I had originally tried to install updated version of digikam from philip5's ppa. When that didn't work, I purged the packages, removed the ppa entry from my apt sources and then installed the Ubuntu universe package.

uname -a
Linux reve 4.2.0-16-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 8 15:35:06 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

dpkg -l digikam*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=================-=============-=============-========================================
ii digikam 4:4.12.0-0ubu amd64 digital photo management application for
ii digikam-data 4:4.12.0-0ubu all digiKam architecture-independant data
un digikam-doc <none> <none> (no description available)

dpkg -l libkexiv2*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=================-=============-=============-========================================
un libkexiv2-11 <none> <none> (no description available)
ii libkexiv2-11v5 4:15.08.2-0ub amd64 Qt like interface for the libexiv2 libra
ii libkexiv2-data 4:15.08.2-0ub all Qt-like interface for the libexiv2 libra

[Rob A (rob-a)]

I missed downgrading libexiv2-14 from the ppa version. Once downgraded everything works.

[Philip A Swiderski Jr (pasjrwoctx-8)]

Can anyone help with this? digikam: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkexiv2.so.11: undefined symbol: _ZN5Exiv213XmpProperties10registerNsERKNSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEES8_

[Achim Bohnet (allee)]

Hi Philip,
I've installed digikam on fresh wily and it starts fine. As in Rob's case I assume you still have a stuff from ppa lying around.

Have a look at

apt-cache policy digikam\* libkexiv2\*

if you find something from an ppa. and/or Ask google howto get riid of ppa pkgs.

Achim