[Digikam-users] DigiKam on Debian

[Martin Gerner]

Hi Mick,

> I have been running DK 2.6 on Debian Wheezy for a while now and I 
> would like to move up a bit.  I have just built a new, more powerful 
> system and have installed Wheezy again, so if I install DK from 
> repositories I will get 2.6 again.
>
> What are my options?  I don't necessarily need to get to the latest 
> version of DK but I would like to get a bit more up to date.  I don't 
> mind upgrading to Jessie but not at all sure about Sid.
>
> If I upgrade to Debian Jessie which DK will I get?
> Could I manually install a later version on Wheezy or will there be 
> dependency issues?

This is probably more of a Debian discussion than a Digikam discussion I 
suppose, but it's funny that you should ask, because I just upgraded to 
Jessie this morning, primarily in order to get Digikam a bit more 
up-to-date (but also for all the other outdated applications out there).

Upgrading to Jessie, Digikam was upgraded to version 3.5.0 (unrelated, 
the upgrade unfortunately didn't fix the problems I were having though). 
I really wouldn't recommend going to Sid, which is very experimental, 
unless you are absolutely certain that it is what you want. There is 
some risk involved with doing a dist-upgrade (although mine was easy 
enough), so be careful. I made a complete copy of my main partition 
(stored to an image file somewhere else) before the upgrade, but that 
may have been a little overkill. Better safe than sorry, though.

A couple of links:
https://wiki.debian.org/Backup/Clone
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/90389/how-to-upgrade-debian-stable-wheezy-to-testing-jessie

-- Martin

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