[digiKam-users] Where to find info on out-of-date Ubuntu packages

[Mica Semrick]

While the Debian link in the original email is dead, both links from digikam.org resolve for me. Not sure why you'd check a Debian page for an Ubuntu package either.

-m 

On January 26, 2020 6:32:10 PM PST, glanvilles at rogers.com wrote:
>Thanks for the info. It would be good to get the dead link was off the
>main website. 
>
>
>On Jan. 26, 2020 4:32 a.m., Mick Sulley <mick at sulley.info> wrote:
>
>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> 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Ubuntu are a little out of date.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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