[Digikam-users] Re: Updating on Ubuntu

[Marie]

Perhaps I'm going insane, but I don't see digikam in that PPA?

Marie

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 23:57 +0100, Photonoxx wrote:
> I didn't know that Alien could convert tar in deb file, but, personally, I  
> upgrade Digikam to 1.6.0 version using a PPA.
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~philip5/+archive/extra
> 
> I'd try some others way, but this one seems to be the more easy and  
> efficient.
> 
> 
> Le Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:26:41 +0100, davidvj <davidvincentjones at gmail.com>  
> a écrit:
> 
> >
> > I have the latest DK version that is available from the Ubuntu  
> > repository ..
> > that is Ver 1.4.0 and I am running Ubuntu 10.10
> >
> > I have been trying to update to the current 1.6.0 and have downloaded the
> > 1.6.0.tar file that I then converted into a deb file using alien. This  
> > all
> > appears to have gone correctly.
> >
> > When I try to install the deb file I get blocked from the Software Center
> > with a message "A later version is already installed".
> >
> > Could I ask somebody that has already upgraded to Ver 1.6.0 on Ubuntu  
> > 10.10
> > to provide some guidance in this matter. Help would be most appreciated.
> >
> > David
> 
>