unable to get digikam working with a maria db instance running elsewhere in my network. The dreaded "Driver not loaded" error occurs. I am mystified. How do I install the driver ? I searched and tried a few things but no luck. Looked for a qt6 driver package... but no joy. I am running digikam on a manjaro (arch) rolling release... so is fairly new. What am I missing ? Is this behaviour by design ? Or is there a missing documentation peice for this?
The mysql "driver" is a Qt plugin loading dynamically on demand at run time. plugin is .so file installed on your system. So your Manjaro must provide the famous plugin to work. Under Ubunto the package is named "libqt6sql6-mysql" https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/sql-driver.html So, it's a packaging problem, not digiKam... Gilles Caulier
Under openSUSE the package is called "qt6-sql-mysql". Maik
someone suggested in the manjaro forum that it could be mariadb-libs which has a dependency on Arch Linux - qt6-base 6.8.2-3 (x86_64)
To me, "mariadb-libs" doesn't sound like the Qt SQL drivers. Is there a Manjaro package list on the web? Maik