[digiKam-users] Best distro for staying up to date with digikam?

[Henrik Hemrin]

Hello, 

I use the standard Appimage on Linux Mint Cinnamon (currently I’m still on Mint 20.3, I have not yet upgraded to Mint 21). 

The Appimage works well for me.

Best regards
Henrik Hemrin

> 5 okt. 2022 kl. 11:02 skrev Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Don't forget the AppImage bundle for Linux which must work everywhere.
> 
> Currently they are compiled under Linux Mageia7, but I plan to move under Ubuntu 20.04. Rolling release Files are compiled weekly and shared here :
> 
> https://files.kde.org/digikam/ <https://files.kde.org/digikam/>
> 
> Best
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> 
> Le mer. 5 oct. 2022 à 10:45, <neinei at gmx.net <mailto:neinei at gmx.net>> a écrit :
> ... or you want to stay somewhere in between, let's say in the gray zone, and use a Manajaro based Desktop Environment, for example Manjaro with KDE. 
> There, a new Digikam release is availabe within a few days  delivered via the regular system update channels.
> 
> On 05/10/2022 02:38, Carlos Echenique wrote:
>> Or you can turn to the dark side and use an Arch based distro. I recommend ArcoLinux. The repos are very up-to-date and the AUR even more so.
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>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 7:52 PM <digikam at 911networks.com <mailto:digikam at 911networks.com>> wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 10:00:25 +1100
>> Andrew Lorien <andrew at andrewswebsite.net <mailto:andrew at andrewswebsite.net>> wrote:
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>> > I'm building a new computer, mostly for media management.  The
>> > Ubuntu stable repo has a very old version of digikam, and the PPA I
>> > was using became unreliable.  I spent a couple of years using the
>> > AppImage but the upgrade to the jpeg tagger broke six months ago.
>> > Next step is just to compile from source.
>> > 
>> > So my question:  What distro are you using, and how do you keep
>> > Digikam up to date?
>> 
>> There is:
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>> * opensuse tumbleweed: almost always current (within a few days)
>> * opensuse leap 15.4: through software.opensuse.org <http://software.opensuse.org/>
>> * debian 11 bullseye: through software.opensuse.org <http://software.opensuse.org/> (my distro)
>> 
>> and 
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>> https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics:/ <https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics:/>
>> https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics/ <https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/graphics/>
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>> which provides darktable on multiple distributions.
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