Good afternoon Mark, It sounds like you may have been bitten by http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/6618, and we apologize for this. Fortunately, there's a workaround: 1) Add the following PPA to your system: https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa (this page contains instructions on how to do this if you're unfamiliar) 2) Remove, then reinstall Shotwell (this should grab the PPA version, which should, in turn, pull in the required version of libgexiv2)
As for the video problem, when you say 'failing to display', do you mean that Shotwell couldn't create thumbnails for them, or that they wouldn't play when double-clicked? Thumbnails not working may indicate that your system doesn't have GStreamer plugins for those formats - do you get thumbnails for the affected video files in your file manager? If you're simply not seeing thumbnails, it's likely a missing codec, and installing something like gst-plugins-bad1.0 would help. If videos won't play when double-clicked, though, it may be that Shotwell is having trouble launching an external media player. When you try to open one of the affected videos from the file manager, what happens? Please let us know. Cheers, -c On 9 May 2013 07:43, Mark Sheriff <[email protected]> wrote: > I since decided to remove shotwell thru software center. > I then re-installed, but no joy. > Typing shotwell in terminal still produces this: shotwell: error while > loading shared libraries: libgexiv2.so.2: cannot open shared object > file: No such file or directory > > > > On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 16:14 +0200, Mark Sheriff wrote: > > Upgrade problems 12 to 14 ubuntu > > > > Shotwell was failing to display videos (mp4 and ASF), even though they > > had been imported, and placed in the correct folder. > > So I checked the Yorba site and discovered, my version was out of date. > > > > I entered the following 3 commands: > > > > $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa > > $ sudo apt-get update > > $ sudo apt-get install shotwell > > > > Note I didn't remove the earlier version, cos the Yorba site did not > > instruct me to do do so. > > > > Result: > > > > Clicking the shotwell icon does not launch the app. > > Typing shotwell, or./shotwell in terminal doesn't work. > > > > I ran $ sudo apt-get install shotwell again..... terminal reported: > > shotwell is already the newest version > > > > Tried launching from dash, but this doesn't work. > > Loaded software centre, and this informs me shotwell is installed, > > offering the option to remove it. > > > > tried inserting an SD card with pics, to get the 'load shotwell' > > command. > > Clicked the command but only got a lot of hard disk activity for a > > period. > > > > What is my best course of action? > > > > What, if any, changes should be made to the install instructions, to > > ensure this does not happen to future users? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Shotwell mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > -- --------------------------- "I don't know what (b² - 4ac) equals, and I don't care," Tom said indiscriminately. _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
