DigiKam on Debian

[Mick Sulley]

I have been running DK 2.6 on Debian Wheezy for a while now and I would
like to move up a bit.  I have just built a new, more powerful system
and have installed Wheezy again, so if I install DK from repositories I
will get 2.6 again.

What are my options?  I don't necessarily need to get to the latest
version of DK but I would like to get a bit more up to date.  I don't
mind upgrading to Jessie but not at all sure about Sid.

If I upgrade to Debian Jessie which DK will I get?
Could I manually install a later version on Wheezy or will there be
dependency issues?

Advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Mick
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[Martin Gerner]

Hi Mick,

> I have been running DK 2.6 on Debian Wheezy for a while now and I
> would like to move up a bit.  I have just built a new, more powerful
> system and have installed Wheezy again, so if I install DK from
> repositories I will get 2.6 again.
>
> What are my options?  I don't necessarily need to get to the latest
> version of DK but I would like to get a bit more up to date.  I don't
> mind upgrading to Jessie but not at all sure about Sid.
>
> If I upgrade to Debian Jessie which DK will I get?
> Could I manually install a later version on Wheezy or will there be
> dependency issues?

This is probably more of a Debian discussion than a Digikam discussion I
suppose, but it's funny that you should ask, because I just upgraded to
Jessie this morning, primarily in order to get Digikam a bit more
up-to-date (but also for all the other outdated applications out there).

Upgrading to Jessie, Digikam was upgraded to version 3.5.0 (unrelated,
the upgrade unfortunately didn't fix the problems I were having though).
I really wouldn't recommend going to Sid, which is very experimental,
unless you are absolutely certain that it is what you want. There is
some risk involved with doing a dist-upgrade (although mine was easy
enough), so be careful. I made a complete copy of my main partition
(stored to an image file somewhere else) before the upgrade, but that
may have been a little overkill. Better safe than sorry, though.

A couple of links:
https://wiki.debian.org/Backup/Clone
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/90389/how-to-upgrade-debian-stable-wheezy-to-testing-jessie

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[maderios]

On 01/01/2014 11:47 AM, Mick Sulley wrote:

> I have been running DK 2.6 on Debian Wheezy for a while now and I would
> like to move up a bit.  I have just built a new, more powerful system
> and have installed Wheezy again, so if I install DK from repositories I
> will get 2.6 again.
>
> What are my options?  I don't necessarily need to get to the latest
> version of DK but I would like to get a bit more up to date.  I don't
> mind upgrading to Jessie but not at all sure about Sid.
>
> If I upgrade to Debian Jessie which DK will I get?

Hi
If you upgrade to Jessie you'll get digikam 3.5...like you can see it on
Debian site...
BUT DK 3.5 is buggy. If you need stable DK,  stay in Debian Wheezy.
DK 2.6 works fine

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[Andrew Goodbody-3]

On 01/01/14 12:35, maderios wrote:

> On 01/01/2014 11:47 AM, Mick Sulley wrote:
>> I have been running DK 2.6 on Debian Wheezy for a while now and I would
>> like to move up a bit.  I have just built a new, more powerful system
>> and have installed Wheezy again, so if I install DK from repositories I
>> will get 2.6 again.
>>
>> What are my options?  I don't necessarily need to get to the latest
>> version of DK but I would like to get a bit more up to date.  I don't
>> mind upgrading to Jessie but not at all sure about Sid.
>>
>> If I upgrade to Debian Jessie which DK will I get?
>
> Hi
> If you upgrade to Jessie you'll get digikam 3.5...like you can see it on
> Debian site...
> BUT DK 3.5 is buggy. If you need stable DK,  stay in Debian Wheezy.
> DK 2.6 works fine
>

I have no problems with digiKam 3.5.0 on Jessie. 3.5.0 contains many bug
fixes since 2.6.0 was released.

You can check the status in Debian here

http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/digikam.html

Andrew
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[tosca]

I've no problem with Digikam 3.5, and enjoy the non-buggy tag management that has just been fixed before 3.5 has been released.

Marie-Noëlle

2014/1/1 maderios <[hidden email]>

BUT DK 3.5 is buggy. If you need stable DK [...]

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[Mick Sulley]

Thanks for the reply.  When I looked at the links I saw reference to backports, perfect answer I thought!  So I tried, failed, investigated and found that DigiKam is not included in backports for some reason.

So I have now upgraded to Jessie.  There seem to be a few differences in the system but at least I now have DigiKam 3.5.0

I'll see how it goes.....

On 01/01/14 11:11, Martin Gerner wrote:

Hi Mick,

I have been running DK 2.6 on Debian Wheezy for a while now and I would like to move up a bit.  I have just built a new, more powerful system and have installed Wheezy again, so if I install DK from repositories I will get 2.6 again.

What are my options?  I don't necessarily need to get to the latest version of DK but I would like to get a bit more up to date.  I don't mind upgrading to Jessie but not at all sure about Sid.

If I upgrade to Debian Jessie which DK will I get?
Could I manually install a later version on Wheezy or will there be dependency issues?

This is probably more of a Debian discussion than a Digikam discussion I suppose, but it's funny that you should ask, because I just upgraded to Jessie this morning, primarily in order to get Digikam a bit more up-to-date (but also for all the other outdated applications out there).

Upgrading to Jessie, Digikam was upgraded to version 3.5.0 (unrelated, the upgrade unfortunately didn't fix the problems I were having though). I really wouldn't recommend going to Sid, which is very experimental, unless you are absolutely certain that it is what you want. There is some risk involved with doing a dist-upgrade (although mine was easy enough), so be careful. I made a complete copy of my main partition (stored to an image file somewhere else) before the upgrade, but that may have been a little overkill. Better safe than sorry, though.

A couple of links:
https://wiki.debian.org/Backup/Clone
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/90389/how-to-upgrade-debian-stable-wheezy-to-testing-jessie

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[maderios]

On 01/01/2014 02:36 PM, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
> I've no problem with Digikam 3.5, and enjoy the non-buggy tag management
> that has just been fixed before 3.5 has been released.
>
May be, it depends on the way you use DK: are you using sqlite, mysql
internal server or external mysql server (my case) ?
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[Mick Sulley]

Update - After moving up to Jessie I struggled a little with the new desktop interface, but I was getting used to it.  The big problem was playing video, switch to full screen worked once but any change after that would freeze the video and require a close and re-open. After a lot of very frustrating attempts to fix it I have moved back to Wheezy.

I am currently investigating pinning which should allow installation of a Jessie package within a Wheezy install.  Testing in a VirtualBox this time - I have learned that lesson at least!

On 01/01/14 13:56, Mick Sulley wrote:

Thanks for the reply.  When I looked at the links I saw reference to backports, perfect answer I thought!  So I tried, failed, investigated and found that DigiKam is not included in backports for some reason.

So I have now upgraded to Jessie.  There seem to be a few differences in the system but at least I now have DigiKam 3.5.0

I'll see how it goes.....

On 01/01/14 11:11, Martin Gerner wrote:

Hi Mick,

I have been running DK 2.6 on Debian Wheezy for a while now and I would like to move up a bit.  I have just built a new, more powerful system and have installed Wheezy again, so if I install DK from repositories I will get 2.6 again.

What are my options?  I don't necessarily need to get to the latest version of DK but I would like to get a bit more up to date.  I don't mind upgrading to Jessie but not at all sure about Sid.

If I upgrade to Debian Jessie which DK will I get?
Could I manually install a later version on Wheezy or will there be dependency issues?

This is probably more of a Debian discussion than a Digikam discussion I suppose, but it's funny that you should ask, because I just upgraded to Jessie this morning, primarily in order to get Digikam a bit more up-to-date (but also for all the other outdated applications out there).

Upgrading to Jessie, Digikam was upgraded to version 3.5.0 (unrelated, the upgrade unfortunately didn't fix the problems I were having though). I really wouldn't recommend going to Sid, which is very experimental, unless you are absolutely certain that it is what you want. There is some risk involved with doing a dist-upgrade (although mine was easy enough), so be careful. I made a complete copy of my main partition (stored to an image file somewhere else) before the upgrade, but that may have been a little overkill. Better safe than sorry, though.

A couple of links:
https://wiki.debian.org/Backup/Clone
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/90389/how-to-upgrade-debian-stable-wheezy-to-testing-jessie

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[Agustin Lobo]

I thought the main advantage of Debian was not to ever have to do a
distribution upgrade. I'm using an ubuntu-based linuxmint distribution
and was thinking on a linuxmint debian based precisely to avoid the
never well solved problem of distribution upgrades on linux (huge
backups, re-installation of all packages, sometimes even a painful
reinstallation from scratch...)
Agus

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Martin Gerner <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Mick,
>
>
>> I have been running DK 2.6 on Debian Wheezy for a while now and I would
>> like to move up a bit.  I have just built a new, more powerful system and
>> have installed Wheezy again, so if I install DK from repositories I will get
>> 2.6 again.
>>
>> What are my options?  I don't necessarily need to get to the latest
>> version of DK but I would like to get a bit more up to date.  I don't mind
>> upgrading to Jessie but not at all sure about Sid.
>>
>> If I upgrade to Debian Jessie which DK will I get?
>> Could I manually install a later version on Wheezy or will there be
>> dependency issues?
>
>
> This is probably more of a Debian discussion than a Digikam discussion I
> suppose, but it's funny that you should ask, because I just upgraded to
> Jessie this morning, primarily in order to get Digikam a bit more up-to-date
> (but also for all the other outdated applications out there).
>
> Upgrading to Jessie, Digikam was upgraded to version 3.5.0 (unrelated, the
> upgrade unfortunately didn't fix the problems I were having though). I
> really wouldn't recommend going to Sid, which is very experimental, unless
> you are absolutely certain that it is what you want. There is some risk
> involved with doing a dist-upgrade (although mine was easy enough), so be
> careful. I made a complete copy of my main partition (stored to an image
> file somewhere else) before the upgrade, but that may have been a little
> overkill. Better safe than sorry, though.
>
> A couple of links:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Backup/Clone
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/90389/how-to-upgrade-debian-stable-wheezy-to-testing-jessie
>
> -- Martin
>
>
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