[Digikam-users] Last version for Digikam in Linux Mint 17.2

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Þann mán 17.ágú 2015 04:44, skrifaði Philip Johnsson:
> Hi
>
> This have been reported before by Linux Mint users. It use pin priority of
> repositories and down priority my ppa and treat is as an unstable source
> and give priority to digikam in your official repository as a stable
> source. You can see the pin priority number by the different sources for
> digikam when running "apt-cache policy digikam" in your terminal.
>

> On Aug 16, 2015 23:14, "Carlos Martín" <nitrosito at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello people!
>>
>> I installed Linux Mint clean 17.2 (previously had 17).
>> I added the PPPA digikam philip
>>
>> upgrade packages installed. But Digikam install from repositories Rafaela
>> !! version 4.0.0!
>>
>> the fact is that if I do a apt-cache show digikam if I get the ppa version
>> of philip!
>>
>> I think have a version of packages problem. Linux Mint 17.2 not have the
>> version of packages need to install latest Digikam
>>
>> Anybody have the same problem?
>>


Hi,

See these for clarification:

<http://askubuntu.com/questions/135339/assign-highest-priority-to-my-local-repository>
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26911509/how-can-i-configure-linux-mint-17-to-get-the-latest-virtualbox>
<http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/37603/enabling-apt-repository-priority-in-lmde>

Either you have a file named /etc/apt/preferences with all the pin 
ordering, or you have (like in my case) separate files for each repo 
inside /etc/apt/preferences.d

For example, my philip5-extra-ppa.pref contains:

Package: *
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-philip5-extra
Pin-Priority: 700

Higher number of Pin-Priority gives extra priority over packages from 
other repositories. But seems there are other subtilities too.

Best regards,
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