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.

[acheron]

Sounds like: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512862

[Beerislife]

It's still broken even after today's massive update. KDE Neon just doesn't seem to get the love it deserves these days!

It looks like I may have to replace it with CachyOS, I've been playing with it on a test machine for quite a while and
it hasn't broken yet!

I'm also looking at a Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 Gen 10 (83HV003DJP)

AMD Ryzen™ 7 8845HS (3.80 GHz 最大 5.10 GHz)
AMD Radeon™ 780M グラフィックス
32 GB DDR5-5600MT/s (SODIMM)(2 x 16 GB)
1 TB SSD M.2 2242 PCIe-NVMe Gen4 TLC

And will definitely nuke the windows install. I think it will be better supported with the newer CachyOS kernels!

[claydoh]

Digikam never stopped working for me here. Two systems. No, three, actually, until last week before I trimmed it down to two neon installs.

[Beerislife]

What beats me is there is no file called:

./src/i18n/kcatalog.cpp

It just does not exist, anywhere, and Groogling brings up zero results!

[Beerislife]

It looks like this bug has been reported:

https://www.mail-archive.com/kde-bug...sg1117846.html

[claydoh]

That's a source file, iirc.

I wonder why I am not seeing this.

[claydoh]

It looks like this bug has been reported:

https://www.mail-archive.com/kde-bug...sg1117846.html

It is the same one Acheron posted previously, fixed in 8.9.0, not released yet, it seems.

You might try a pre-release appimage for the moment, until there is a final release, maybe.