[Digikam-users] Re: digiKam and Kipi-plugins 1.8.0 released...

[Linuxguy123]

On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 13:49 -0600, Hevï Guy wrote:
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> On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 11:22 -0700, Linuxguy123 wrote: 
> > Ubuntu is good about keeping current with recent releases.  
> Ahh, hah, ha, ha (howling out-loud laughing), ha, ha!!!

It appears that Natty is running 1.8.0.  
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=digikam&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

I'm only running 1.7.0 in F14 right now.

In ubuntu if you want the latest (stable) releases, you pretty much have
to run the latest ubuntu release.   They aren't great about backporting
and given their user base, I can't say that I blame them. 

> > I'd wait
> > until its in their repository and upgrade via the tools they provide
> > versus building from source.
> Well, if I wait long enough for Ubuntu to place dK 1.8 in their
> repository, Gilles and the gang will have made dK v 4.2 available by 
> then

See above.

> > Its an interesting exercise to build from source, but for a one or two
> > time activity as a newbie, it can be a lot of work.
> I don't mind the work at all. It's actually very interesting. The
> false starts and dead ends are just very frustrating. For an old
> codger such as me, this hinders rather than helps the learning
> process! 

If you enjoy that sort of thing, you should be running Fedora.  At least
in Fedora you have access to -unstable and -testing, which gets you most
of what you get when you build without the building process and with
community support.

When it comes to libraries and dependencies, I find yum (in Fedora) a
lot easier to work with than apt and its variants.  I'm an rpm guy.
<Ducks and runs away>