[digiKam-users] Where to find info on out-of-date Ubuntu packages

[Mick Sulley]

You may be able to find a PPA to allow you to run the latest version, 
but as Andrey said the easiest way is to use the appimage.  I use it on 
Linux Mint, which is a derivative of Ubuntu, and it works fine.

Mick

On 26/01/2020 00:42, Andrey Goreev wrote:
> Hello,
> I think the main reason is that digikam 6.4.0-stable and digikam 
> 7.0.0-beta rely on the latest versions of various libraries e.g. exiv2 
> that are not available in ubuntu repos.
> I switched to KDE Neon because they have the latest stable digikam in 
> their repos while relying on ubuntu stable (18.04) base.
> However, the official digikam appimage is so good nowadays. I have 
> noticed that I run the appimage 90% of the time lately.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrey
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 1:44 PM Jay Dickon Glanville 
> <glanvilles at rogers.com <mailto:glanvilles at rogers.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'd like to learn more about why the latest Digikam packages from
>     Ubuntu are a little out of date. (I think the latest is version
>     5.9.0.)
>
>     The Download by Package page
>     (https://www.digikam.org/download/binary/) says you can find out
>     more information by going to this page
>     (http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=digikam).
>     But that's a dead link.
>
>     Is there another page that contains this information?
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Jay
>
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