How to Install digiKam 5.3.0 Released on Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10

After a 3rd release 5.2.0 published more than one month ago, the digiKam team is proud to announce the new release 5.3.0 of digiKam Software Collection. This version introduces an important common solution to deploy the application under Linux using AppImage bundle.

AppImage is an open-source project dedicated to provide a simple way to distribute portable software as compressed binary file, that standard user can run as well, without to install special dependencies. All is included into the bundle, as last Qt5 and KF5 frameworks. AppImage use Fuse file-system, which is de-compressed into a temporary directory to start the application.

digiKam 5.3.0 of the new features in this release:

• Port to Qt5 and KF5;
• Replacing digiKam KIOSlaves by a multi-threaded interface to query the database;
• Add embedded trash support for each collection instead desktop trash;
• Thumbs and preview video support is now delegate to QT5Multimedia framework;
• Mysql internal server is now configurable as Sqlite to store database files at a customized place;
• Mysql internal/remote server is now configurable with first run assistant;
• Add a new batch queue manager tool to convert RAW files to DNG;
• Add a new batch queue manager tool to adjust time and date metadata;
• Add a new batch queue manager tool to detect and fix red-eyes automatically;
• Add a new option in editor and light table to import images from a digital scanner;
• Add a new option in editor and light table to edit metadata; Add a new option in editor and light table to edit geolocation;
• Add a new option in editor and light table to run presentation tool;
• Add a new editor tool to detect and fix red-eyes automatically;
• Add a new editor tool to perform color change based on Lut3D;
• Add a new tool in camera import interface to convert RAW files to DNG;
• Consolidation of Mysql database backend;
• Improved startup time with differed scan for new items stage.
• ...and much more.

Installation instructions:

In order to successfully install digiKam on Ubuntu, you have to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the digiKam package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip5/extra $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install digikam5

Optional, to remove digiKam, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove digikam5 $ sudo apt-get autoremove