{"id":5178,"date":"2015-08-09T15:04:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T15:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5178"},"modified":"2024-04-24T16:36:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T16:36:33","slug":"install-latest-digikam-4-12-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/08\/install-latest-digikam-4-12-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install the Latest digiKam 4.12.0 in Ubuntu 15.04, 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/digikam_icon245.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/digikam_icon245.png\" alt=\"digikam_icon245\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5179\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>digiKam Software Collection 4.12.0 has been released recently with a huge bugs fixed. KDE Frameworks 5 port is planed to be completed before end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Johnsson is maintaining PPAs with latest digiKam packages for current Ubuntu releases (e.g., Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.04). It&#8217;s easy to install or upgrade the software in supported Ubuntu releases via below steps:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/splash-digikam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/splash-digikam.jpg\" alt=\"splash-digikam\" width=\"500\" height=\"307\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/splash-digikam.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/splash-digikam-450x276.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1. For (K)Ubuntu 15.04 and (K)Ubuntu 14.04 with default KDE, open terminal emulator from app launcher and run below command to add PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip5\/extra<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/digikam-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/digikam-ppa-450x108.jpg\" alt=\"digikam-ppa\" width=\"450\" height=\"108\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/digikam-ppa-450x108.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/digikam-ppa-600x144.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/digikam-ppa.jpg 662w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. For (K)Ubuntu 14.04 who has upgrade to KDE 4.14 via <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~kubuntu-ppa\/+archive\/ubuntu\/backports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kubuntu Backports PPA<\/a>, add another PPA instead:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip5\/kubuntu-backports<\/pre>\n<p>3. After adding one of previous PPAs, upgrade digiKam through your package manager after reload system cache. Or run below commands one by one in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install digikam<\/pre>\n<p>4. (Optional) To downgrade digiKam to the default version available in system repository, install ppa-purge and purge the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:philip5\/extra<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>digiKam Software Collection 4.12.0 has been released recently with a huge bugs fixed. KDE Frameworks 5 port is planed to be completed before end of this year. Philip Johnsson is maintaining PPAs with latest digiKam packages for current Ubuntu releases (e.g., Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.04). It&#8217;s easy to install or upgrade the software in supported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[690,1033],"class_list":["post-5178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-digikam","tag-digikam-ppa"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}