[Digikam-users] Upgrading Digikam outside of Ubuntu software centre

[Sjoerd]

Quoting Gary Pocklington <garyd.pocklington at gmail.com> at Thu, 19 Jan  
2012 10:33:28 +0000:

> Hello,
>
> Ok, so I seem to have established that Ubuntu/Conical are not going  
> to supply updates for Digikam (why not?!).
>
> I have a couple of questions, bearing in mind that I would like to  
> keep Digikam up to date and have stable software.
>
> Is there a simple way of upgrading to latest stable version of  
> Digikam outside of the Ubuntu software centre? For non-technical  
> type people like myself?


How about :

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:philip5/extra

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install digikam


Works for me all the time (so far ;-) )

Cheers,