<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>You will notice that digiKam 5 pulls way less KDE stuff. Developers have been working hard migrating digikam from KDE to Qt for the last few years and the version 5 was a major milestone.</div><div><br></div><div>I have used Philipp Johnson's PPA back in my Ubuntu days. It was 5.x.x. for sure not 4.12.</div><div><br></div><div>But the appimage is great. I does have some limitations but it is the best way to get the official digikam after all.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> </div><div>Date: 2018-08-14 12:00 PM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: digikam-users@kde.org </div><div>Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Printing - I need help! </div><div><br></div></div>Andrey Goreev <aegoreev@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> [-- text/plain, encoding base64, charset: utf-8, 28 lines --]<br>> <br>> You can try a flatpak:https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Flatpak<br>> I think they are easy to update but they are sandboxed. <br><br>It's not whether something is *easy* top update, what's important is<br>that it gets updated regularly without my intervention so that<br>security fixes etc. get installed.<br><br>As it is, using an Ubuntu distribution, all I have to do is say 'yes'<br>to the automatic updates sent out regularly (well, scanned for<br>automatically by my system I guess). I try *very* hard not to install<br>large items of software from outside the official repositories and<br>Digikam is definitely that because it pulls in a lot of KDE stuff that<br>I wouldn't have otherwise. <br><br>> But I would rather use the 5.9.0 appimage instead of 4.12 native ubuntu <br>> package. Digikam 4.x.x. and 5.x.x. are two completely different animals <br>> <br>If I installed an 'outside' Digikam it would almost certainly stay<br>stuck at that version on my system until something broke.<br><br>-- <br>Chris Green<br>ยท<br><br></body></html>