Bug 362472

Summary: Provide a way to install Digikam 4.14 in (K)Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial)
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: yan
Component: Bundle-AppImageAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, samrog131
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.14.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 5.7.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description yan 2016-04-29 12:19:26 UTC
I have seen posts that explain how to install Digikam 4.14 in Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04 (see here for example: http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2015/10/digikam-4-14-0-released/). But I can't manage to use 4.14 in the latest Kubuntu release 16.04. Is there a way to do that? It would be great, because I need a feature that has been added in that version (fullscreen mode).

Thanks in advance.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2016-04-29 12:32:38 UTC
Please report this problem to packagers, not to developers. So typically on Kubuntu bugzilla.

Gilles Caulier
Comment 2 yan 2016-04-30 17:38:25 UTC
Wow, it's really not easy to find the right place (I've had the same problem with other issues). Could you tell me where to find that Kubuntu bugzilla? Searching for it the top hint is actually bugs.kde.org.
Comment 3 Rog131 2016-04-30 17:46:01 UTC
(In reply to yan from comment #2)
> Wow, it's really not easy to find the right place (I've had the same problem
> with other issues). Could you tell me where to find that Kubuntu bugzilla?
> Searching for it the top hint is actually bugs.kde.org.

(K)Ubuntu bug reports: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Bugs/Reporting
Comment 4 yan 2016-05-02 05:18:39 UTC
Just in case somebody else stumbles upon this post: I contacted Philip Johnsson who maintains the PPA at https://launchpad.net/~philip5/+archive/ubuntu/extra and he told me that he is working on packages of digikam 4.14 and digikam 5 beta 6 for Ubuntu 16.04 right now that he will upload to his PPA. But there are still some issues with geolocation and maps that he hasn't been able to solve yet.
Comment 5 yan 2016-05-16 07:30:42 UTC
The packages have been published in the aforementioned PPA.
Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2017-07-11 10:24:18 UTC
Since digiKam 5.0, we provide a Linux bundle as AppImage format which can run under Kubuntu without to install anything...

Gilles Caulier