digiKam availability as Flatpak/Snap

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Thu Jan 16 12:30:11 GMT 2020


It's normal : the flatpack build job is broken :

https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Flatpak/job/Digikam_flatpak/403/console

Due to a too old Exiv2 package from the infrastructure...

Gilles Caulier

Le jeu. 16 janv. 2020 à 13:28, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> 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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