[Digikam-devel] Regarding OS for digiKam

Philip Johnsson philip.johnsson at gmail.com
Wed May 11 03:23:11 BST 2016


I have built packages of both digikam 4.14 and digikam 5 beta on (k)ubuntu
16.04 without any problem (except you can't built geolocation support with
digikam 4.14 as Marble is only provided for QT5 out of the box). Digikam 5
betas will build with official (k)ubuntu 16.04 packages.

/Philip

/Philip
On May 11, 2016 00:28, "Swati Lodha" <swatilodha27 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well thank you Veaceslav.
>
> Kubuntu 16.04 released recently. Using it won't it be an issue in near
> future?
>
>>
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 3:30 AM, Veaceslav Munteanu <
> veaceslav.munteanu90 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If I remember correctly, I was able to compile KF5 digikam without too
>> many problems on Plasma 5 Kubuntu.
>>
>> I am using Archlinux as my ultimate development machine, since it always
>> has the newest(and the buggiest) packages, so I don't need to compile
>> anything from sources. But Archlinux is quite difficult to configure for
>> someone who tries it for the first time. You can give it a try. Or Kubuntu
>> should also be good enough.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Gilles Caulier <
>> caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Note : Swati will develop as student this summer on the QT5/KF5 version
>>> of digiKam. So she will needs développement packages.
>>>
>>> Gilles Caulier
>>>
>>> 2016-05-10 22:53 GMT+02:00 Swati Lodha <swatilodha27 at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> So what would be better according to you?
>>>>>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 2:21 AM, Philip Johnsson <
>>>> philip.johnsson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ubuntu and Kubuntu use the same repositories so it doesn't matter. The
>>>>> difference is just what selection of packages and desktop environment you
>>>>> get when you install.
>>>>>
>>>>> /Philip
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Swati Lodha <swatilodha27 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> digiKam is not properly functional on my system. So I plan to format
>>>>>> and system and build it again.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would it okay to use Ubuntu instead of Kubuntu (my current Linux
>>>>>> distro)? (since digiKam uses many K packages and libraries)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Swati
>>>>>>>>>>>>
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