@Area51Resident your last question could be misunderstood or misinterpreted. Especially some(if not all) darktable developers are here
However, you might bring it to a MINT- or an UBUNTU-Forum, AFAIK your MINT is UBUNTU-based.
Maybe that is actually a good idea, as dt acc. to my experience is rock solid and the issue might be somewhere else…
We may still try some things together…
→ It looks to me know dt is starting but the GUI crashes or is broken in any other way. ←
I never saw something like this on my machine but I would expect, if you start dt -d all on a terminal, you would get helpfull feedback
e.g. in my case, because I have git-master installed in parallel I geth this:
~ $ darktable -d all
[memory] at startup
[memory] max address space (vmpeak): 271212 kB
[memory] cur address space (vmsize): 271212 kB
[memory] max used memory (vmhwm ): 16708 kB
[memory] cur used memory (vmrss ): 16708 kB
** (darktable:30395): WARNING **: 04:57:06.441: Couldn’t register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
[init] database version of `library.db’ is too new for this build of darktable. aborting
ERROR : cannot open database
If by what ever reason, we see here, you have a very old dt-version, then pls. spend what ever it takes, to get at least darktable-2.4.4 on hand
Than still some other analysis (btw. now might be the time to start a crisp list, what have been done so far, not to all details but basic steps)
- pgrep -l darktable (make sure is not running)
- if so, pls.
- kill -9 xxxx (where xxxx is th PID you got above)
- in a terminal type darktable --version
→ geths me here:
~ $ darktable --version
this is darktable 2.6.2
copyright (c) 2009-2019 johannes hanika
darktable-dev@lists.darktable.org
compile options:
bit depth is 64 bit
normal build
SSE2 optimized codepath enabled
OpenMP support enabled
OpenCL support enabled
Lua support disabled
Colord support disabled
gPhoto2 support enabled
GraphicsMagick support disabled
OpenEXR support enabled
After you are sure, dt is not running (pgrep), pls try from a terminal
- darktable -d all (and report back the full output)
Besides I am still waiting, you type alias in a terminal and tell us, whether in the list you may get, you find darktable.
I am not familiar with MINT since I use gentoo. Google tells me, there is synaptics, as a GUI for apt-get. Anyway:
- could you try to installed dt like so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAWEm7m5uo8 ??
(gives you the chance to see messages in between).
- also I am not sure at all, how your distro guarantees that all dependencies are updated prior installation.
- so can you make sure, your system is up-to-date or at least all dt-relevant packages are up-to-date (especially gtk+ shall be >=3.14
Here is acc. to my system (maybe not everything relevant for you!) the list af all deps:
BDEPEND="
dev-util/intltool
virtual/pkgconfig
nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )
"
COMMON_DEPEND="
dev-db/sqlite:3
dev-libs/json-glib
dev-libs/libxml2:2
dev-libs/pugixml:0=
gnome-base/librsvg:2
>=media-gfx/exiv2-0.25-r2:0=[xmp]
media-libs/lcms:2
>=media-libs/lensfun-0.2.3:0=
media-libs/libpng:0=
media-libs/tiff:0
net-libs/libsoup:2.4
net-misc/curl
sys-libs/zlib:=
virtual/jpeg:0
x11-libs/cairo
>=x11-libs/gtk±3.14:3
x11-libs/pango
colord? ( x11-libs/colord-gtk:0= )
cups? ( net-print/cups )
flickr? ( media-libs/flickcurl )
geolocation? ( >=sci-geosciences/osm-gps-map-1.1.0 )
gnome-keyring? ( >=app-crypt/libsecret-0.18 )
gphoto2? ( media-libs/libgphoto2:= )
graphicsmagick? ( media-gfx/graphicsmagick )
jpeg2k? ( media-libs/openjpeg:2= )
opencl? ( virtual/opencl )
openexr? ( media-libs/openexr:0= )
webp? ( media-libs/libwebp:0= )
"
I am sure, we make it run, -one day