Digikam packages and latest versions

[Leonardo Giordani-2]

Hi all,

I would share with you a big issue I experience with digikam, hoping to start an improvement in digikam itself.

Digikam is evolving very fast, and this is a clear sign of both the excellence of the product and the of the community of developers. Unfortunately it seems to evolve too fast from a user point of view.

Being time-boxed by my official work this year I no more contributed to digikam as developer, but I always use it and I constantly experienced the annoyance of not being able to install the latest version of digikam.

I'm currently on Ubuntu Precise 12.04 and the digikam package contains version 2.5.0. Ubuntu Quantal (out in a month) will contain version 2.8.0. At the beginning of september digikam reached 2.9.0, 3.0.0 is under development, and I really would like to use the features you people add to this great software (and the bugfixes!).

You could tell me to change my distro: this is a solution, but I don't think it touches the real point. After all I can, as developer, change my distro, run a virtual machine, build the software by my own, etc.

But as user I simply would like to install that latest, fantastic, version of digikam. Should I say "just like Windows users do?": yes, in this cases I really see a difference between me and a Windows user, and in the comparison I lose.

I really don't have an idea about a possible solution, so I'm just sharing my thoughts with you developers, since I really value your work on digikam. I would be happy to hear from you what you think about it and if some of you would be interested in finding a solution for what I think is a real issue for a standard user (not a developer).

Thank you very much in advance.

Leo



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[Gilles Caulier-4]

It's typically a packaging problem with your distro.

As i compile myself on different OS, i don't have a high level
feedback to report, excepted to said that Windows stuff is a really
shame to build.

But under other Linux OS, when dependencies are solved, compilation
and run-time are fine, outside external lib dependencies which can
crash digiKam (as OpenCV/Gphoto2 confilct about IEE1394 interface for
ex...)

Gilles Caulier

2012/9/13 Leonardo Giordani <[hidden email]>:

> Hi all,
>
> I would share with you a big issue I experience with digikam, hoping to
> start an improvement in digikam itself.
>
> Digikam is evolving very fast, and this is a clear sign of both the
> excellence of the product and the of the community of developers.
> Unfortunately it seems to evolve too fast from a user point of view.
>
> Being time-boxed by my official work this year I no more contributed to
> digikam as developer, but I always use it and I constantly experienced the
> annoyance of not being able to install the latest version of digikam.
>
> I'm currently on Ubuntu Precise 12.04 and the digikam package contains
> version 2.5.0. Ubuntu Quantal (out in a month) will contain version 2.8.0.
> At the beginning of september digikam reached 2.9.0, 3.0.0 is under
> development, and I really would like to use the features you people add to
> this great software (and the bugfixes!).
>
> You could tell me to change my distro: this is a solution, but I don't think
> it touches the real point. After all I can, as developer, change my distro,
> run a virtual machine, build the software by my own, etc.
>
> But as user I simply would like to install that latest, fantastic, version
> of digikam. Should I say "just like Windows users do?": yes, in this cases I
> really see a difference between me and a Windows user, and in the comparison
> I lose.
>
> I really don't have an idea about a possible solution, so I'm just sharing
> my thoughts with you developers, since I really value your work on digikam.
> I would be happy to hear from you what you think about it and if some of you
> would be interested in finding a solution for what I think is a real issue
> for a standard user (not a developer).
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Leo
>
>
>
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> Leonardo Giordani
>
>
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[S. Burmeister]

Am Donnerstag, 13. September 2012, 09:08:22 schrieb Leonardo Giordani:
> But as user I simply would like to install that latest, fantastic, version
> of digikam. Should I say "just like Windows users do?": yes, in this cases
> I really see a difference between me and a Windows user, and in the
> comparison I lose.

Maybe I did not understand the issue correctly, but doesn't almost every
distro offer package repositories with updated versions?

Sven
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[Richard Mortimer]

Hi,

On 13/09/2012 08:08, Leonardo Giordani wrote:
> I'm currently on Ubuntu Precise 12.04 and the digikam package contains
> version 2.5.0. Ubuntu Quantal (out in a month) will contain version
> 2.8.0. At the beginning of september digikam reached 2.9.0, 3.0.0 is
> under development, and I really would like to use the features you
> people add to this great software (and the bugfixes!).
>
Whilst not official Ubuntu packages Philip Johnsson maintains an Ubuntu
PPA (personal package archive) that generally includes recent versions
of Digikam.

https://launchpad.net/~philip5/+archive/extra

Last I saw this currently contains 2.9.0 and this is build against 12.04.

If you aren't familiar with PPAs the following URL may be of help.
https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-help/addremove-ppa.html

I run Philip's PPAs and they are an excellent way to keep up with fast
moving Digikam.

Regards

Richard

P.S. Thanks to Philip for maintaining the PPA.
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