Digikam 8.2.0 appimage crashes after upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

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Hi,

I have been using the Digikam 8.2.0 Appimage (digiKam-8.2.0-x86-64.appimage) for several years now on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. I just recently upgraded my PCs (laptop and desktop PC) to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. After successfully starting the digikam appimage on any of the machines, a right click on an image is enough to freeze the digikam instance with the error:

unknown: The desktop entry file “/usr/share/applications/org.freedesktop.Xwayland.desktop” has Type= “Application” but no Exec line
unknown: Invalid Service : “/usr/share/applications/org.freedesktop.Xwayland.desktop”
unknown: The desktop file “/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Totem.desktop” references the action “mute” but doesn’t define it

Is this issue known? And how could it be solved? Any help is appreciated!

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What you must do is upgrade your digiKam. The stable release is in version 9. There is no reason for this case to be supported, given that it is a legacy version.

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Thanks for the suggestion! This was actually the first thing I tried when the problems with 8.2.0 popped up, but I also had problems getting 9.0.0 running properly. In fact, after trying around a bit I managed to get 9.0.0 running by now and will stop using 8.2.0.