digiKam 4.7.0 is released, avaialable for (K)ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux and Mac OSX

DigiKam 4.7.0 is released, avaialable for (K)ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux and Mac OSX

digiKam is an open source project that provides users with a dedicated photo management solution, specifically designed to be deployed on KDE desktop environments. It includes image editor and organizer components, which can be easily extended through a built-in and powerful plugin architecture.

Features at a glance

Key features include red eyes correction, brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, saturation and luminosity correction, color balance, color inversion, color auto-correction, ratio cropping, free cropping, black & white and tonality converter using curves adjustments, rotation, and flipping.

With this tool, you will be able to import pictures, organize your photo collection, view images, edit and enhance photos, create slideshows and calendars, print and share your photo creations using social web services, email images, and much more.

What's new in digiKam 4.7.0:

• This release includes many bugs fixes from Maik Qualmann who propose patches to maintain KDE4 version while KF5 port is under progress.

DigiKam 4.7.0 is released, avaialable for (K)ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux and Mac OSX :

How to install DigiKam 4.7.0 on Kubuntu 14.10, Kubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint 17 KDE systems, using KDE 4.13 and non KDE Ubuntu 14.04 derivatives:

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

How to install DigiKam 4.7.0 on Kubuntu 14.10, Kubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint 17 KDE systems, using KDE 4.14:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip5/kubuntu-backports
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install digikam

Optional, to remove DigiKam 4.7.0 from either Kubuntu 14.10, Kubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint 17 KDE, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove digikam

Before you can use digiKam, you must first download and install it. There are three ways to do that:

• Use a package provided by your operating system
  This is the preferred way. It is easy and stable, but it might be a version which is somewhat older.

• Compile a tarball which we provide
  This is a bit more complicated, but you can install the most recent stable version.

• Compile the KDE4 latest versions (git repository) where we currently work in.
  This is even more complicated, but as recent as it gets. This is needed when you want to help us to find bugs or help us develop.

You can choose the one which fits you best. We provide detailed instructions for each of them.
Note: check the dependencies before trying to compile digiKam.