<div dir="ltr">Hi all, <div><br></div><div>I just completed to build a 32 bits version of digiKam AppImage bundle here :</div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="font-size:16px"><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzeiVr-byqt5WnBDN0VfSk9UTWM" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/open?<wbr>id=0BzeiVr-<wbr>byqt5WnBDN0VfSk9UTWM</a></div></div><div style="font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px">All feedback are welcome</div><div style="font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px">We have now a complete AppImage solution ready for next 5.3.0...</div><div style="font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px">Best</div><div style="font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="font-size:16px">Gilles Caulier</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-10-23 20:13 GMT+02:00 Gilles Caulier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" target="_blank">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all, <div><br></div><div>For the next 5.3.0, a new digiKam bundle will be proposed : the Linux 64bits ApppImage.</div><div><br></div><div>What's AppImage exactly ? Well it's simple : it's a stand alone Linux executable which embed all requirement to run an application.</div><div><br></div><div>The executable is in fact an archive which is automatically decompressed somewhere in /tmp using Fuse file system. The contents is a copy of libraries, settings, data files of application, including plugins and mandatory dependencies. The AppImage is not installed on the system and do not require root right.</div><div><br></div><div>Typically, it's an alternative of official package provided by Linux distro team.</div><div><br></div><div>The goal is to provide a recent release of application without to wait that your distro team build relevant packages with all required dependencies</div><div><br></div><div>For technical reasons, the AppImage is compiled on an older CentOS 6.8 to be sure that i can be executed on all major Linux distro, as Suse, RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu, etc... The time to build The bundle is around 3 hours from scratch, less if Qt5+KF5 dependencies are already pre-compiled. This will be perfect to test dysfunctions fix in real time without to wait a next official release.</div><div><br></div><div>AppImage SDK provide also a desktop integration of the bundled application, as Icons and USB events when a camera is connected to computer. At first run of AppImage, a dialog must appear to ask about desktop integration...</div><div><br></div><div>Some problems still present in this bundle. The main one identified is the non video files support (thumbnails + preview), as under Linux, Gstreamer puzzle is used and it's really impossible to package with AppImage, due to huge list of runtime dependencies. For the future, we plan to drop Qt5::Multimedia to another frameworks to handle video files (something less complicated...)</div><div><br></div><div>The AppImage can be downloaded here :</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzeiVr-byqt5SUZRMGtWa3VCUDg" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/open?<wbr>id=0BzeiVr-<wbr>byqt5SUZRMGtWa3VCUDg</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>For all unknown possible problems, i recommend to test it with a new account on your computer and with a test collection. Do not use it yet in real production.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank in advance for your feedback.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div></font></span></div>
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