DigiKam broken

[Beerislife]

Digikam was working fine before the last update but now it just crashes and burns.

Starting it from Konsole, I get this:

[wayne@Wayne-IdeaCentre ~]$ digikam
ASSERT failure in KCatalogPrivate::setupGettextEnv: "You need to instantiate a
Q*Application before using KCatalog", file ./src/i18n/kcatalog.cpp, line 306
Aborted (core dumped)
[wayne@Wayne-IdeaCentre ~]$

[kc1di]

Could not even get the downloaded program to install here. Wondering if it may be a wayland thing.

[claydoh]

The neon packages installed and run fine for me here.

Could not even get the downloaded program to install here. Wondering if it may be a wayland thing.

Downloaded? What do you mean here? Should either be neon's debs from the repos, or flatpak/snap. Appimage, perhaps? Sometimes, those are just broken, depending on how they were made.

Wayland won't have an effect on this.

[FreeMinded]

I see the same error on the KDE neon (latest user edition) as well.
Have you had any luck inn fixing it?

[kc1di]

Enabled flatpak on Kubuntu 25.10 and installed digikam and it works fine. Big file though. But it will work.

[Beerislife]

It's broken in Wayland and X11. I refuse to install Snaps or Flatpaks!

[kc1di]

It's broken in Wayland and X11. I refuse to install Snaps or Flatpaks!

That's your choice. but the flatpak works. Hope you find a solution that works for you.