{"id":43895,"date":"2023-04-17T14:59:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T14:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=43895"},"modified":"2024-04-24T16:36:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T16:36:32","slug":"digikam-8-0-0-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/digikam-8-0-0-released\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install digiKam (8.2.0 Updated) in Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-logo.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-43896\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-logo-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-logo-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-logo-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-logo-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-logo-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-logo.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>digiKam, the popular KDE photo management software, released new major 8.0.0 version! Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu users.<\/p>\n<p>digiKam 8.0.0 is a big release after two year of development. It features <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.digikam.org\/en\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new online documentation<\/a> that is well written with plenty of screenshots and screencasts. An <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.digikam.org\/en\/epub\/DigikamManual.epub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EPUB<\/a> is also available for offline use.<\/p>\n<p>Image support has been greatly improved in this release. It added <b>support for 16-bit float (half float) images<\/b> in the TIFF Loader, and JPEG-XL, WEBP, and AVIF export settings everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes include new <b>OCR over scanned text via Tesseract<\/b> engine, and:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Port to Qt6, and still compatible with Qt 5.15 LTS.<\/li>\n<li>Spell-checking in the captions\/information\/properties edit-text widgets<\/li>\n<li>Add convert to lossless JPEG-XL, WEBP, and AVIF while importing from camera.<\/li>\n<li>Add JPEG-XL, WEBP, and AVIF converters in Batch Queue Manager.<\/li>\n<li>Database search by the number of face regions or without face regions.<\/li>\n<li>New option to write metadata to files with ExifTool backend.<\/li>\n<li>Add support for SQLite WAL (Write-Ahead-Logging) mode.<\/li>\n<li>Update G&#8217;MIC-Qt tool to last version 3.2.2.<\/li>\n<li>Phase One\/Leaf IIQ-S v2 support Canon CR3 filmrolls\/RawBurst Canon CRM (movie) files Tiled bit-packed (and 16-bit unpacked) DNGs (non-standard) Deflate-compressed integer DNG files are allowed Canon EOS R3, R7 and R10 Fujifilm X-H2S, X-T30 II OM System OM-1 Leica M11 Sony A7-IV (ILCE-7M4) DJI Mavic 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam80.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43897\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam80-600x337.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam80-600x337.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam80-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam80-768x431.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam80.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How to Install digiKam 8.2.0 in Ubuntu &amp; other Linux<\/h3>\n<p>The new digiKam release is available to install via both <b>Flatpak<\/b> and <b>AppImage<\/b>. Choose either one that you prefer.<\/p>\n<h4>Option 1: digiKam Flatpak<\/h4>\n<p>1. For digiKam Flatpak package, first press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to enable Flatpak support.<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-39141\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy-600x229.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy-600x229.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy-300x115.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy-768x294.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy.webp 777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Then, run command to install digiKam as flatpak package:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak install https:\/\/dl.flathub.org\/repo\/appstream\/org.kde.digikam.flatpakref<\/pre>\n<p>As you see in the screenshot below, the flatpak package however will do many downloads for the run-time libraries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/flatpak-digikam.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43898\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/flatpak-digikam-600x398.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/flatpak-digikam-600x398.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/flatpak-digikam-300x199.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/flatpak-digikam-768x510.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/flatpak-digikam.webp 966w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Option 2: digiKam AppImage<\/h4>\n<p>Some users do NOT like Flatpak, because it take much more disk spaces. In the case, you can choose to use the non-install AppImage package.<\/p>\n<p>1.) First, select download the latest AppImage package from the link below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digikam.org\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download digiKam (Linux AppImage)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>2.) Then, open the Downloads folder in your file manager. And, do following steps to launch digiKam:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Right-click on the AppImage package, and click open &#8220;Properties&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to &#8220;Permissions&#8221; tab, and enable &#8220;Allow executing file as program&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Close the &#8220;Properties&#8221; dialog.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, right-click on AppImage, and click &#8220;Run&#8221; to launch digiKam.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam8-appimage.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43899\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam8-appimage-600x350.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam8-appimage-600x350.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam8-appimage-300x175.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam8-appimage-768x449.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam8-appimage.webp 1135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Create shortcut for the digiKam AppImage<\/h3>\n<p>Click run the AppImage launches the digiKam software directly. If you want to add a shortcut into app launcher (search results in &#8216;Show Applications&#8217; and\/or &#8216;Activities&#8217; overview), do following steps one by one.<\/p>\n<p>1. First, it&#8217;s recommended to put the AppImage package into a certain folder for long time use. Here I chose the &#8220;<code>.local\/bin<\/code>&#8221; directory.<\/p>\n<p>Just, press <b>Ctrl+H<\/b> in Files, and navigate to .local -&gt; bin (create bin folder if not exist). Then, copy or move the digiKam AppImage into this folder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-appimage-bin.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43900\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-appimage-bin-600x334.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-appimage-bin-600x334.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-appimage-bin-300x167.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-appimage-bin-768x428.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-appimage-bin.webp 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Then, download the logo icon from web. Just, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digikam.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its website<\/a>, right-click on the logo in top-left and select &#8220;<b>Save image as<\/b>&#8221; to download the file.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, rename the file to <code>digikam.svg<\/code>, and store in &#8220;<b>.local\/share\/icons<\/b>&#8221; (<em>also, create the &#8216;icons&#8217; sub-folder if not exist<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-icon.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43901\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-icon-600x334.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-icon-600x334.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-icon-300x167.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-icon-768x428.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/digikam-icon.webp 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Finally, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to create the shortcut config file:<\/p>\n<pre>gedit ~\/.local\/share\/applications\/org.kde.digikam.desktop<\/pre>\n<p><i>Replace <code>gedit<\/code> with <code>gnome-text-editor<\/code> for Ubuntu 23.10+, or use <code>nano<\/code> instead.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>When file opens in text editor (or terminal for nano), paste follow lines and save it. For nano, press <strong>Ctrl+X<\/strong>, type <strong>y<\/strong> and hit Enter to save file.<\/p>\n<pre>[Desktop Entry]\r\nName=digiKam\r\nComment=digiKam photo management tool\r\nExec=digiKam-8.0.0-x86-64.appimage\r\nIcon=digikam\r\nCategories=Graphics;\r\nType=Application\r\nTerminal=false<\/pre>\n<p>NOTE: if the <b>bin<\/b> folder under <b>.local<\/b> was previously not exist. You need to log out and back in to make it in your PATH.<\/p>\n<p>4. After that, you should be able to search for and launch digiKam from app launcher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/open-digikam.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43902\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/open-digikam.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/open-digikam.webp 506w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/open-digikam-300x168.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>digiKam, the popular KDE photo management software, released new major 8.0.0 version! Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu users. digiKam 8.0.0 is a big release after two year of development. 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