[digiKam-users] v6.1 installation

[Milton Bliss]

I may have missed previously published answers to my questions, but it is not for lack of searching and reading. If I’ve missed, please direct me.

My goal is to stop using Mac OSX Photos, it’s library system is insufficient for my photography addiction. Digikam seems really useful therefore I’d like to use it. Which leads to a set of questions:

1) Which OS should I use? The documents state for both Windows and OSX, not as stable under MacOS as under Linux Ok, I’ll use Linux. But which? I choose Ubuntu 18.04, then installed with “apt-get install digikam” which provided v5.2. - It seems v6.1 would be a nice place to start.

2) How does one install an AppImage - the instructions suggest AppImageLauncher. So I download AppImageLauncher and unzip it.

3) How does one install AppImageslauncher ? From a terminal window in the unzipped directory I entered “sudo apt install appImageLauncher” which responds

Reading package list … Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information… Done

E: Unable to locate package appimagelauncher

4) It seems I’ve missed downloading a critical piece. Where is it?

Any documentation or direction would be most appreciated. I’ve wondered if Ubuntu is a bad choice as Digikam is a KDE application, and Ubuntu uses Gnome. I’d be happy to use another OS, but which?

[woenx]

It's actually easier than you think.

Ok, so the last stable version of Digikam is 6.1 (get it here:
https://www.digikam.org/download/ ), and the last unstable/testing builds
prior to the 6.2 version are there https://files.kde.org/digikam/

I recommend the latter, as some new features have been implemented and bugs
fixed. I personally have tried digikam under Windows and Linux and both work
equally well. There may be some hiccup here and there, but generally it is
more than fine. So if you want to use it under Mac OS, I'd say go for it.

The versions on official repositories tend to be very outdated, do not use
them (if only someone would create and maintain a ppa for ubuntu...). Get
the file ending in qtwebkit-x86-64.appimage if you are using linux. The one
with qtwebengine is still very unstable, so avoid it for now.

You don't need AppImageLauncher at all, although it can be useful. More onto
that later.

So, in order to use an Appimage, you don't need to install anything at all.
Just double click on the Appimage. If nothing happens, make sure the file
has execution rights (right click, properties, permissions, and check the
execution box).

Et voilà! Digikam should have started.  

Now, if you think that having to launch digikam by double-clicking that
.appimage file everytime is quite tedious, you can use AppImageLauncher. It
is a small program that basically will automatically copy the .appimage file
to a folder in /home/user/Applications and create shortcuts so it appears in
the main menu. That's basically it. To install it, get it from here:
https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher/releases/tag/v1.3.0-beta-1 ,
download the appropriate version for your distribution, and install it (if
it's a .deb file, just double-clicking on it should work). Maybe you have to
reboot later, I don't know.

And that's it.

tl;dr; Get the appimage, give it execution rights, and double click it.





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