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 So I checked the Yorba site and discovered, my version was out of date.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?
> 
> 
> 
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