[Digikam-users] Packages of Digikam 5 beta 2 for Ubuntu 15.10 on my PPA

[Jens Benecke]

Hello Philip,

great work! Is it also possible to build the packages for Ubuntu 14.10?

Jens

Am 11.12.2015 um 23:52 schrieb Philip Johnsson:
> Dmitri,
>
> Nice to know!
>
> Have fun discovering the future of Digikam! :)
>
> All features except multimedia support are enable as far as I know. I 
> have to look into enabling it as right now ubuntu 15.10 give 
> conflicting binary symbols as mixed versions of gstreamer will load at 
> the same time and crash digikam 5. Hopefully I can enable it in a 
> coming update.
>
> /Philip
>
>
> /Philip
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Dmitri Popov <lazylegs at gmail.com 
> <mailto:lazylegs at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Philip,
>
>     Thank you so much for building digiKam packages for Ubuntu! I
>     installed it on Kubuntu 15.10, and everything works like a charm so
>     far.
>
>     Best,
>     Dmitri
>
>     On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Philip Johnsson
>     <philip.johnsson at gmail.com <mailto:philip.johnsson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > Hi Ubuntu users that use my PPA
>     >
>     > I have just uploaded packages of Digikam 5 beta 2 for Ubuntu
>     15.10. I
>     > packaged it so it can be tested as something extra to my
>     packages of digikam
>     > 4.14 as digikam 5 beta 2 will share some common files with
>     digikam 4 when
>     > they are installed on the same computer.
>     >
>     > If you use Ubuntu 15.10 you can test digikam 5 by installing my
>     "extra" PPA
>     > with the following command:
>     >
>     > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip5/extra
>     > sudo apt-get update
>     > sudo apt-get install digikam5 showfoto5
>     >
>     > If you haven't used my PPA before that will also give you an
>     update of
>     > Digikam 4 to 4.14.
>     >
>     > In your system start menu you will find both Digikam (version 4)
>     and Digikam
>     > 5 beta 2 that you can choose what to start (I'm not sure if it
>     matters if
>     > you run them both at the exact same time with the same sqlite3
>     database but
>     > they can share the same database otherwise.). Remember that
>     Digikam 5 is
>     > still beta software and not ready for production use. If you
>     want to start
>     > digikam 5 from the command line you start it with the command
>     "digikam5".
>     > The "digikam" command will start version 4 of Digikam.
>     >
>     > If you experience any conflicts or problems with the packages
>     then just
>     > report it back to me and I'll try to fix it as soon as possible.
>     Right now
>     > it should just work. Bugs in Digikam 5 should be reported back
>     to the
>     > Digikam team so they can enhance Digikam 5 for the final release.
>     >
>     > Happy digikaming!
>     >
>     > Philip
>     >
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