Re: digikam import fails
On Thursday 16 June 2022 03:19:38 pm gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I just took a pix of one of my projects to send to a friend, but
> when I had installed digikam to download the pix from my camera,
> going thru the usual steps to access the camera, which it did as
> usual, but when I had selected the pix, and tried o dl it, the album
> selector window was blanked, empty and even when I typed in the
> full path to the desired directory, which has around 20G of pix
> already in /home/gene/Pictures, there was no response to the
> return key aother than the search bar being blacked, the album
> window remains blanked and the ok on the lower right of that
> album window remains ghosted.
>
> IOW, I cannot download from the camera. How do I go about
> troubleshooting this?
>
> The shell I ran digikam from is reporting screens full of
> missing this and that despite the installation of digikam
> pulling in:
> 0 upgraded, 261 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 273 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 726 MB of additional disk space will be used.
>
> Then when I run it, there are hundred of missing that and than lines
> spit out in the shell I launched it from. Its obvious to me there are
> more kde dependencies missing, that just the 261 listed. I've tried to
> install some of them by the names reported, but that universally does
> not exit. And I'd druther not install the rest of kde, its not stable
> for me.
>
> Thanks all.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
I must be missing something here...
When I plug in my camera to a US port, it shows up on the desktop, at which point I can mount it. Then I can access it and copy/move stuff to wherever, using mc or whatever utility you like. Why is some special program needed for this?
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