digikam does not start: missing shared library

[Marco Nolden]

On current precise beta digikam fails to start:

$ digikam
digikam: error while loading shared libraries: libOpenNI.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04

$ apt-cache policy digikam
digikam:
  Installed: 4:2.5.0-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 4:2.5.0-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 4:2.5.0-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

What is the output of running the command 'which digikam'?

[Marco Nolden (marco-n)]

$ which digikam
/usr/bin/digikam

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

How about the output of 'ldd digikam'? I suspect you may have a locally-built instance of digikam installed.

[Marco Nolden (marco-n)]

I used to have a version from a PPA. After the upgrade I reinstalled it completely. Maybe it's still some library from this PPA that has the missing dependency but I wonder why it was not replaced by the official precise version. All PPAs on my system are currently deactivated.

$ ldd /usr/bin/digikam
 linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff795ff000)
 libQtSql.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtSql.so.4 (0x00007faf0dfa4000)
 libkparts.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkparts.so.4 (0x00007faf0dd51000)
 libphonon.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libphonon.so.4 (0x00007faf0dae0000)
 libkhtml.so.5 => /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.5 (0x00007faf0d15f000)
 libknotifyconfig.so.4 => /usr/lib/libknotifyconfig.so.4 (0x00007faf0cf4c000)
 libsolid.so.4 => /usr/lib/libsolid.so.4 (0x00007faf0cc57000)
 libkface.so.1 => /usr/lib/libkface.so.1 (0x00007faf0ca32000)
 libkgeomap.so.1 => /usr/lib/libkgeomap.so.1 (0x00007faf0c7dc000)
 libkipi.so.8 => /usr/lib/libkipi.so.8 (0x00007faf0c5c2000)
 libkexiv2.so.10 => /usr/lib/libkexiv2.so.10 (0x00007faf0c336000)
 libkdcraw.so.20 => /usr/lib/libkdcraw.so.20 (0x00007faf0c055000)
 liblcms.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblcms.so.1 (0x00007faf0be1d000)
 libdigikamcore.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdigikamcore.so.2 (0x00007faf0b6c5000)
 libdigikamdatabase.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdigikamdatabase.so.2 (0x00007faf0b2c2000)
 libgphoto2_port.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgphoto2_port.so.0 (0x00007faf0b0b8000)
 libgphoto2.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgphoto2.so.2 (0x00007faf0ae39000)
 libQt3Support.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt3Support.so.4 (0x00007faf0a95e000)
 libkio.so.5 => /usr/lib/libkio.so.5 (0x00007faf0a4a7000)
 libQtXml.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtXml.so.4 (0x00007faf0a264000)
 libkdeui.so.5 => /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.5 (0x00007faf09bfb000)
 libQtGui.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4 (0x00007faf08f2c000)
 libkdecore.so.5 => /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.5 (0x00007faf08a5a000)
 libQtCore.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 (0x00007faf08588000)
 libQtDBus.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtDBus.so.4 (0x00007faf0830a000)
 libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007faf0800a000)
 libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007faf07d10000)
 libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007faf07af9000)
 libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007faf0773c000)
 libnepomuk.so.4 => /usr/lib/libnepomuk.so.4 (0x00007faf07462000)
 libnepomukutils.so.4 => /usr/lib/libnepomukutils.so.4 (0x00007faf07226000)
 libpulse.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpulse.so.0 (0x00007faf06fde000)
 libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0 (0x00007faf06dd9000)
 libktexteditor.so.4 => /usr/lib/libktexteditor.so.4 (0x00007faf06b98000)
 libkjs.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkjs.so.4 (0x00007faf068c9000)
 libjpeg.so.8 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.8 (0x00007faf0667a000)
 libgif.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgif.so.4 (0x00007faf06470000)
 libpng12.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0 (0x00007faf06248000)
 libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007faf06031000)
 libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x0000...

[Marco Nolden (marco-n)]

Ok, since this seems to be a local problem I guess it is not a digikam bug. I found some instructions how to force all packages back to their "official" version and I assume this will make digikam work again.

[Andreas Ermler (aermler)]

Did you find a solution? I have the same problem.

[Marco Nolden (marco-n)]

It was caused by some leftover packages from a PPA (ppa:philip5/extra) This PPA doesn't have any 12.04 builds yet so these old libraries got mixed with the digikam from 12.04.
To solve it I removed all local or obsolete packages in synaptic (Status tab).

[Kev Walke (kelvinelk)]

I had this problem, and just to note I got lucky and did not uninstall everything from "local or obsolete packages" in synaptic, I just deleted the libopencv* packages and this fixed it up without having to re-install all the other stuff I actually wanted from within that filter.

[Andreas Ermler (aermler)]

Great, that worked, thanks!