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    <p>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.</p>
    <p>Mick<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26/01/2020 00:42, Andrey Goreev
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        <div>Hello,</div>
        <div>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.</div>
        <div>I switched to KDE Neon because they have the latest stable
          digikam in their repos while relying on ubuntu stable (18.04)
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        <div>However, the official digikam appimage is so good nowadays.
          I have noticed that I run the appimage 90% of the time lately.</div>
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                    <div>Thanks,</div>
                    <div>Andrey<br>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 1:44
          PM Jay Dickon Glanville <<a
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              <div dir="ltr">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                Digikam packages from Ubuntu are a little out of date.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.)</div>
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              <div dir="ltr">The Download by Package page (<a
                  href="https://www.digikam.org/download/binary/"
                  rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.digikam.org/download/binary/</a>)
                says you can find out more information by going to this
                page (<a
                  href="http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=digikam"
                  rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=digikam</a>).
                But that's a dead link.</div>
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              <div dir="ltr">Is there another page that contains this
                information?</div>
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              <div dir="ltr">Thanks</div>
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              <div dir="ltr">Jay<br>
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