Digikam always crashes when doing xxxx. What can I do ?

When editing IPTC, playing with tags, assigning keywords or doing xxxx, digikam crashes. What's the problem ?

It could be a problem with exiv2. It's mandatory to use at least version 0.11 with digikam. So, install a recent version (0.14 is highly recommended).

If digikam still crash, first check if you already have a former exiv2 library with version < 0.11 installed on your system. There are been many reports about crashes due to old exiv2 libs still present in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib.
If you found one old lib, remove it if possible, or try at least to rename it to see if it solves the problem.
It's strongly recommended to use the latest stable exiv2 version (0.14 now).

Then, check the support and the contrib pages.
Try to see if your problem has already been reported by another user in bugs.kde.org .
If it's not the case, check the contrib page, you will find instructions on how to compile digikam with full debug and how to send us a backtrace.