digiKam availability as Flatpak/Snap

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Thu Jan 16 12:28:18 GMT 2020


No result on flathub :

https://flathub.org/apps/search/digikam

Gilles

Le jeu. 16 janv. 2020 à 13:24, Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Ihor,
> I think digiKam is available on flathub.
> I have seen digikam flatpak on one of the KDE websites for sure.
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Ihor Dvoretskyi <ihor.dvoretskyi at gmail.com>
> Date: 2020-01-16 4:40 a.m. (GMT-07:00)
> To: "digiKam developers room - digiKam: Manage your photographs as a
> professional with the power of open source" <digikam-devel at kde.org>
> Subject: digiKam availability as Flatpak/Snap
>
> I know that this was discussed some time ago (
> http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/flatpak-kde-applications-Add-digikam-to-our-nightly-flatpak-builds-td4704276.html#none),
> but I'd like to get the current status. Any plans of the digiKam community
> to make the digiKam software be available as snap (http://snapcraft.io/)
> or Flatpak (https://flatpak.org/) packages?
>
> It is clear that the Appimages exist, but Appimage has its own
> limitations. Specifically, there is no automated way to track the release
> changes and automatically upgrade the local version of the software - you
> have to go to the website and download a new version of digiKam every time
> when it's released. So, I'm fine with using Appimages, but they have their
> own limitations.
>
> I have discovered that it's a common practice for the various projects
> from the KDE ecosystem to be released as the Flatpak packages (
> https://flathub.org/apps/search/kde) and snaps (
> https://snapcraft.io/search?q=kde), so it would be great to have digiKam
> available in one of those (or both) formats someday.
>
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