upgrade digikam

[Remco Viëtor]

On lundi 4 août 2025 10:32:11 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Errol Sapir wrote:
> Hi
> 
> My OS is MX-kde. Until a few days ago I used the appimage of Digikam and was
> using Digikam 8.0. I decided to install digikam on my computer as a
> program. It installed version 4:7.9.0-1 from the MX repo which opens
> digikam 7.9.0. How can I update to version 8?
> 

I see two options (besides the appimage):
- find a repo for your distribution which has the latest version (needs a 
volunteer to maintain the repo)
- compile from sources, which requires you to install development packages for 
all dependencies *with the proper versions*.

If there is no third-party build for your distro, the simplest is using the 
appimage. Personally, I stay away from flatpak or snap, the sandboxing can 
cause issues when using external libraries not planned for in the package???