[digiKam-users] Where to find info on out-of-date Ubuntu packages

[Jay Dickon Glanville-2]

I'd like to learn more about why the latest Digikam packages from Ubuntu are a little out of date. (I think the latest is version 5.9.0.)

The Download by Package page (https://www.digikam.org/download/binary/) says you can find out more information by going to this page (http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=digikam). But that's a dead link.

Is there another page that contains this information?

Thanks

Jay

[AndriusWild]

Hello,

I think the main reason is that digikam 6.4.0-stable and digikam 7.0.0-beta rely on the latest versions of various libraries e.g. exiv2 that are not available in ubuntu repos.

I switched to KDE Neon because they have the latest stable digikam in their repos while relying on ubuntu stable (18.04) base.

However, the official digikam appimage is so good nowadays. I have noticed that I run the appimage 90% of the time lately.

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 1:44 PM Jay Dickon Glanville <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'd like to learn more about why the latest Digikam packages from Ubuntu are a little out of date. (I think the latest is version 5.9.0.)

The Download by Package page (https://www.digikam.org/download/binary/) says you can find out more information by going to this page (http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=digikam). But that's a dead link.

Is there another page that contains this information?

Thanks

Jay

[Mick Sulley]

You may be able to find a PPA to allow you to run the latest version, but as Andrey said the easiest way is to use the appimage.  I use it on Linux Mint, which is a derivative of Ubuntu, and it works fine.

Mick

On 26/01/2020 00:42, Andrey Goreev wrote:

Hello,

I think the main reason is that digikam 6.4.0-stable and digikam 7.0.0-beta rely on the latest versions of various libraries e.g. exiv2 that are not available in ubuntu repos.

I switched to KDE Neon because they have the latest stable digikam in their repos while relying on ubuntu stable (18.04) base.

However, the official digikam appimage is so good nowadays. I have noticed that I run the appimage 90% of the time lately.

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 1:44 PM Jay Dickon Glanville <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'd like to learn more about why the latest Digikam packages from Ubuntu are a little out of date. (I think the latest is version 5.9.0.)

The Download by Package page (https://www.digikam.org/download/binary/) says you can find out more information by going to this page (http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=digikam). But that's a dead link.

Is there another page that contains this information?

Thanks

Jay

[Jay Dickon Glanville-2]

Thanks for the info. It would be good to get the dead link was off the main website. 

On Jan. 26, 2020 4:32 a.m., Mick Sulley <[hidden email]> wrote:

You may be able to find a PPA to allow you to run the latest version, but as Andrey said the easiest way is to use the appimage.  I use it on Linux Mint, which is a derivative of Ubuntu, and it works fine.

Mick

On 26/01/2020 00:42, Andrey Goreev wrote:

Hello,

I think the main reason is that digikam 6.4.0-stable and digikam 7.0.0-beta rely on the latest versions of various libraries e.g. exiv2 that are not available in ubuntu repos.

I switched to KDE Neon because they have the latest stable digikam in their repos while relying on ubuntu stable (18.04) base.

However, the official digikam appimage is so good nowadays. I have noticed that I run the appimage 90% of the time lately.

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 1:44 PM Jay Dickon Glanville <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'd like to learn more about why the latest Digikam packages from Ubuntu are a little out of date. (I think the latest is version 5.9.0.)

The Download by Package page (https://www.digikam.org/download/binary/) says you can find out more information by going to this page (http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=digikam). But that's a dead link.

Is there another page that contains this information?

Thanks

Jay

[Mica Semrick]

While the Debian link in the original email is dead, both links from digikam.org resolve for me. Not sure why you'd check a Debian page for an Ubuntu package either.

-m

On January 26, 2020 6:32:10 PM PST, [hidden email] wrote:

Thanks for the info. It would be good to get the dead link was off the main website. 

On Jan. 26, 2020 4:32 a.m., Mick Sulley <[hidden email]> wrote:

You may be able to find a PPA to allow you to run the latest version, but as Andrey said the easiest way is to use the appimage.  I use it on Linux Mint, which is a derivative of Ubuntu, and it works fine.

Mick

On 26/01/2020 00:42, Andrey Goreev wrote:

Hello,

I think the main reason is that digikam 6.4.0-stable and digikam 7.0.0-beta rely on the latest versions of various libraries e.g. exiv2 that are not available in ubuntu repos.

I switched to KDE Neon because they have the latest stable digikam in their repos while relying on ubuntu stable (18.04) base.

However, the official digikam appimage is so good nowadays. I have noticed that I run the appimage 90% of the time lately.

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 1:44 PM Jay Dickon Glanville <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'd like to learn more about why the latest Digikam packages from Ubuntu are a little out of date. (I think the latest is version 5.9.0.)

The Download by Package page (https://www.digikam.org/download/binary/) says you can find out more information by going to this page (http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=digikam). But that's a dead link.

Is there another page that contains this information?

Thanks

Jay