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

[Andrew Lorien]

Thanks everyone, this is great.
I left Gentoo for Ubuntu ten years ago when I didn't have time for it.  I
have a laptop running Arch, which works well but reminds me why i switched
to a low-maintenance distro.  Feels like Manjaro KDE is the right middle
ground for me.

The AppImage was working OK for me until the exiftool upgrade in 7.3.0
where i had this still-unresolved problem
<https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=255&t=173834>.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 1:55 AM Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 10:00:25 +1100
> Andrew Lorien <andrew at andrewswebsite.net> wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Fedora makes building new rpms very easy if you set up your environment
> for rpm building.
>
> Only thing to note is that if using the default GNOME Wayland DE then
> digikam misbehaves with flickering windows as soon as you open
> settings. It works perfectly using GNOME Xorg. I'm trying to get this
> resolved, but the bugzilla entry is rarely updated.
>
> --
>
> Brian Morrison
>
>                 "I am not young enough to know everything"
>                                                           Oscar Wilde
>
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