Artful Aardvark

[James Pirie]

Hi Gilles, Derek and Peter,

Thanks for your responses.  I had not appreciated what a good idea 
appimages were/are :)  For that reason I have avoided them.  However, 
having now informed myself it looks like this is the way forward and 
will re-install Artful at the next opportunity and set about downloading 
my first *.appimage file :)

I wonder though how this system of packaging will affect the future of 
Linux Distros in general?  Will they become less or more flexible for 
all?  At the moment I get updates automatically for all chosen 
applications.  IN the future it may be more difficult to locate the 
package I need and, also to keep up with updates but...on reflection, no 
more so than with the dreaded Windows 10 system I suppose ;)

Every day is a School day!


Many thanks again.


James


On 25/10/2017 18:23, Peter Albrecht wrote:
> Hello James,
>
> if digikam is not in the default software repository of Artful Aardvark, maybe
> digikams AppImage packages are a solute to use digikam in your Linux distribution.
>
> AppImage Download:
> https://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/
>
> Article about AppImage in DigiKam:
> https://www.digikam.org/news/2016-11-07_digiKam_5.3.0_is_published/
>
> AppImage in general:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage
>
> I haven't tried this myself, but there has been a lot of talking about DigiKam
> AppImage on this mailinglist.
>
> Regards,
> 	Peter
>
> On 25.10.2017 14:22, James Pirie wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Message for Philip Jonsson I suppose :)  Do you plan to support Artful
>> Aardvark with  Digikam?  I only ask because, once again I have upgraded
>> and lost Digkam :(  Not an urgent thing though because I always have a
>> backup image and I have reverted to Zesty for now :)If you do have a plan to support Artful, how will I keep an eye
>> on progress?  Would I just visit the ppa pages and look out for a
>> new package?
>> Thanks for your continued support.
>>
>> James Pirie
>>
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