ExifTool error in Digikam 8.5.0

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Hi all,

I’m using DigiKam 8.5.0 (from Snap Store) running on Ubuntu 22.04.05. It was running fine for a while but then since a couple of weeks I’m getting this error every time I launch DigiKam:

“ExifTool is not available in your digiKam installation or is not working correctly… Error message: child process set up failed: execve: No such file or directory [00:08]”

I do have the ExifTool installed in my environment but I suspect this is a problem with the DigiKam snap because I believe this dependency should be embedded in the package.

Does anyone have an idea of what could be the issue and how to solve it?

Thanks!

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I have the same issue with the DigiKam 8.5 snap on Ubuntu 24.04.3.

Using which exiftool in the terminal shows exiftool is installed in /usr/bin

In Digikam Settings->Configure Digikam->Metadata->Exiftool it shows it cannot find the exec for exiftool. When I click the “Find” button to input the location of exiftool Digikam crashes - every time.

Looks like its an issue with the snap but it’s not clear who maintains the snap. On snapstore it says its a KDE app but it doesn’t seem to be an official snap maintained by KDE

In the Snap Store / App Center in Ubuntu there are no report button or contact links.

I guess all we can go is report the bug to Digikam and go from there.

If they say it’s a snap issue it may be a case of installing the AppImage. The ubuntu repo has Digikam 8.2 and I haven’t found a repo for 8.5.

I hope that helps. I’ll report a bug to Digikam later