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digikam stopped working in the last week. F40 on WSLg on Win10

I recently installed digikam on a WSL Fedora instance on my Win10 home desktop. It ran beautifully for a few days - long enough to get my entire collection of 100,000 images scanned and indexed. But ...
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Where does Digikam store video meta data?

I have configured Digikam to store metadata (such as tags and ratings) in the files themselves (under SETTINGS > CONFIGURE DIGIKAM > METADATA). This seems to have worked well for my photos. I ...
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Using checkinstall in place of sudo cmake?

I've been trying to compile digikam and as part of that process needed to compile jasper. Jasper developers use cmake, I wanted to make a .deb package -- in fact was trying to learn how to make a ...
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How to refresh an album without re-generating thumbnails in Digikam?

In Digikam, I can right-click on an album name, and hit REFRESH. This will do two things: It will scan the album directory for new files, and add them to Digikam It will create new thumbnails for all ...
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Digikam not starting after update: Failed to update the database schema from version 12 to version 13

I've got Digikam running on Archlinux, with my photo database stored in MariaDB. This worked fine, until a recent upgrade. When I try to open Digikam, it returns: Failed to update the database schema ...
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How to install digikam5 on Linux Mint?

After adding the ppa:philip5/extra PPA sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip5/extra apt update ; apt upgrade I attempted to install digikam5 package and got the error: $ apt install digikam5 … The ...
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How to install KDE icon theme package in Arch Linux?

digiKam 5 no longer comes bundled with an icon theme, so when running in Awesome WM there are no icons at all. In Configure digiKam → Miscellaneous → Icon theme it simply says "Use Icon ...
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How to force Digikam 5 to have a specific tag in Awesome WM?

It used to be easy to make Digikam appear on the correct screen and tag in Awesome WM using for example rule_any = { class = { "Digikam", […] } }, properties = { tag = tags[1][3] } }. This doesn't ...
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