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? -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin