<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>You can try a flatpak:</div><div>https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Flatpak</div><div><br></div><div>I think they are easy to update but they are sandboxed. </div><div><br></div><div>But I would rather use the 5.9.0 appimage instead of 4.12 native ubuntu package. Digikam 4.x.x. and 5.x.x. are two completely different animals </div><div><br></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 6:17 AM (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>Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: UTF-8, 42 lines --]<br>> <br>> Why did you try to use a very old version of digiKam.<br>> <br>Because it's the version in my current Xubuntu distribution, 16.04 LTS.<br><br>> Last stable is 5.9.0. between 4.12.0, many years pass with plenty of fix.<br>> <br>> Use offcial digiKam 5.9.0 Linux AppImage bundle. It's a self contained<br>> executable. It don't install anything on your system. It's a stand alone<br>> packaging all that programm need.<br>> <br>> Download the file, turn file as executable, run it, and try again.<br>> <br>If I did that for everything I'd have a nightmare remembering when to<br>update things. Unless Digikam can provide a means of automatically<br>updating itself then I'm afraid I'm stuck with the version in my<br>distribution. Is there not a Digikam PPA?<br><br>That said I'll be updating to Xubuntu 18.04 LTS in the very near<br>future so I'll be getting a newer Digikam.<br><br>-- <br>Chris Green<br>ยท<br><br></body></html>