Digikam versions

[Sjoerd-2]

Hi all,

Seems I managed to screw up my Kubuntu system and now DigiKam crashes all the
time on libkexiv2, so I think it might be better to reinstall my laptop :(

Anyway what's the best way to get the gratest latest and stable version  of
Digikam? Stick with the distribution package? Add Philips ppa? Or compile it
yourself?
The easiest is to add Philips ppa I guess, but would that give the best
results on everyone's machine?
Stil doubting betweein installing Kubuntu 14.04 LTS or 14.10, but in the end
that shouldn't matter to much I hope..

Cheers,
Sjoerd

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[Philip Johnsson]

Hi

It's up to you if you want to decided to use my PPA and others to tell you their experience of the PPA but for now I have a bit over 1000 users of the Digikam packages and few complaints. To compile it yourself can be fun and educational or if you want to turn off some features or need some other version of dependent software/packages. It's not the easiest software suit to start with if you are new to building and compiling software and packages yourself.

For the moment my build support all features but dlnaexport which will be supported in the next build of digikam 4.7 as I had not ported a library package to give that feature support when packaging digikam 4.6. The kipi plugin wallpaper isn't supported either.

Using 14.04 or 14.10 depends on your needs and nothing I have an opinion on but I use Kubuntu 14.10 myself. :)

Happy digikaming!

/Philip

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Sjoerd <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi all,

Seems I managed to screw up my Kubuntu system and now DigiKam crashes all the
time on libkexiv2, so I think it might be better to reinstall my laptop :(

Anyway what's the best way to get the gratest latest and stable version  of
Digikam? Stick with the distribution package? Add Philips ppa? Or compile it
yourself?
The easiest is to add Philips ppa I guess, but would that give the best
results on everyone's machine?
Stil doubting betweein installing Kubuntu 14.04 LTS or 14.10, but in the end
that shouldn't matter to much I hope..

Cheers,
Sjoerd

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[Sjoerd-2]

Hi Philip,

Thanks for your prompt reply!
In the meantime I tried compiling it myself on a 14.10 system, but even if
I've all the dependencies, make fails already within 1 minute, so I think I
better stick with your ppa. Always worked great before, but I think something
went wrong on my laptop when upgrading from 14.04 LTS to 14.10...Maybe
upgrading a release isn't flawless when ppa's are involved..

Anyway on a freshly instaled virtual machine with 14.04 LTS or 14.10 both with
your ppa, all works fine, so the quickest to get my laptop out of misery s to
reinstall I guess...

dnlsexport I never used before and don't even know what the kipi wallpaper
plugin would do, so....
OK kubuntu 14.10 it will be then :)

Cheers,
Sjoerd


On Monday 02 February 2015 19:21:40 Philip Johnsson wrote:

> Hi
>
> It's up to you if you want to decided to use my PPA and others to tell you
> their experience of the PPA but for now I have a bit over 1000 users of the
> Digikam packages and few complaints. To compile it yourself can be fun and
> educational or if you want to turn off some features or need some other
> version of dependent software/packages. It's not the easiest software suit
> to start with if you are new to building and compiling software and
> packages yourself.
>
> For the moment my build support all features but dlnaexport which will be
> supported in the next build of digikam 4.7 as I had not ported a library
> package to give that feature support when packaging digikam 4.6. The kipi
> plugin wallpaper isn't supported either.
>
> Using 14.04 or 14.10 depends on your needs and nothing I have an opinion on
> but I use Kubuntu 14.10 myself. :)
>
> Happy digikaming!
>
> /Philip
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Sjoerd <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Seems I managed to screw up my Kubuntu system and now DigiKam crashes all
> > the
> > time on libkexiv2, so I think it might be better to reinstall my laptop :(
> >
> > Anyway what's the best way to get the gratest latest and stable version
> > of
> > Digikam? Stick with the distribution package? Add Philips ppa? Or compile
> > it
> > yourself?
> > The easiest is to add Philips ppa I guess, but would that give the best
> > results on everyone's machine?
> > Stil doubting betweein installing Kubuntu 14.04 LTS or 14.10, but in the
> > end
> > that shouldn't matter to much I hope..
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sjoerd
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > [hidden email]
> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users

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