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Stéphane Tréboux
Asked: 2016-11-02 23:46:06 +0800 CST

digiKam 4.14.0 cannot download photos from my PTP camera in Kubuntu 16.10

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Ubuntu 16.10/Kubuntu 16.10 ship with the photo management program digiKam 4.14.0.

digiKam 4.14.0 can detect my PTP camera (Canon Powershot G1 X); the camera is listed under "Import -> Cameras -> xyz". When I click on my camera name nothing happens. When I run digiKam from a console I can see the error message Failed to detect camera with GPhoto2 from Solid information.

digiKam 4.12.0 (shipped with Kubuntu 16.04 LTS) used to open a new window with previews of the pictures stored on my camera.

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    For some reason digiKam for Kubuntu 16.10 was built without the library libgphoto2 and because of that PTP cameras are not supported.

    Until digiKam supports PTP cameras again gtkam can be used instead.

    A way to check if PTP cameras are supported by the build of digiKam you are using is to check the shared object dependencies of the digikam binary with this command:

    ldd /usr/bin/digikam | grep gph

    The digikam binary inside digikam_4.12.0-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb has the following matches:

    $ ldd digikam | grep gph
    libgphoto2_port.so.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgphoto2_port.so.12 (0x00007fadff8dd000)
    libgphoto2.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgphoto2.so.6 (0x00007fadff658000)

    The digikam binary inside digikam_4.14.0-4ubuntu6_amd64.deb has no matches:

    $ ldd digikam | grep gph
$

    A bug report is available on Launchpad.

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