installing digikam 1.7 on OpenSuse 11.3

Lo everybody,
I just made a big mistake. I tried to install the newest digikam 1.7 from Index of /repositories/KDE:/Release:/45/openSUSE_11.3

Now kde is not working and I try to revert to the previous configuration by reverting all changes yast made. Also removed the new repository.

Is there a safe was to install digikam 1.7?

what went wrong?

to get rid of version 1.7 - start yast, go to the entry for digikam and click on the version tab and select one of the other entries to get a different version installed.

This is not as easy as you suggest.
Since digikam 1.7 needed a lot of newer kde packages, I have to remove them all to get a working kde back.

Actually it is pretty easy, remove the repo, then update all packages unconditionally. That will return everything to the way it was. It will of course take a while, but it is easily done.

Lo brucecadieux,
your suggestion did not work but I got my kde back now.

The question still stays open: Is there a way to get digikam 1.7 without crashing the whole system?

Thx everybody for helping so far.

My guess is that you might need to upgrade the whole desktop rather then just some random packages. You did not say what version of KDE you are running.

I am running the new test version (m5) at the moment but I going to re-install 11.3 (with the 4.5.4 repo). I will see how I get on updating to digikam 1.7 and post back.

I have a copy of the previous version of digikam (before 1.7) and can always email this to you if need be.

I always have problems with that.
How do you upgrade KDE safely? Last time i did it, the repos got messed up. I kinda think i had two kde versions running since all devices were double.
So how can i do that safely without messing up the system. Factory is, i assume, not the one you want. Right now i have just KDE 4.4.4 (standard).

Probably all that is needed is this on the kde45
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/Switcher%20Pics/package%20switch%20kde.png

I updated Digikam today to 1.7
All is just fine

Same here and I also installed from the KDE stable repository. Maybe You need to add it ?
Index of /repositories/KDE:/Release:/45/openSUSE_11.3
This one is for openSUSE 11.3.

Best regards,
Greg

worked ok for me updating using the 45 repo

Not sure if that was to my response, but i think i had the problem because of Factory.
I will try again. I checked my repositories and there is no KDE in it. So i guess i should be fine.
:slight_smile:

Thanks, caf4926 for this comment.

I suffered a similar meltdown a few weeks back, trying to load DigiKam 1.6 at a time when it was only available in the Factory repo. That version was compiled under kde4.6beta1 but loading digikam this brought in only the dependencies it needed, resulting in a broken KDE. I finished upgrading to 4.6beta1 but it was a bit too unstable for my liking.

I likewise now have DigiKam 1.7, loaded from the kde45 repo at
Index of /repositories/KDE:/Release:/45/openSUSE_11.3

As some other wise commenter said, “Beware of what the Factory repo brings you”…

Good to hear things are better

I did fine.
You shouldn’t use Factory if you don’t want to risk a unstable system.
With the regular repositories its fine. :slight_smile: